Silence Finder missing silent sections

V 3.6.4 W10 Pro x64

A large .mp3 file (almost 40 MB) contains over 40 clips of classical music separated by silent sections of about 10 seconds.

The Silence Finder in the Analyze menu finds most of the silent sections but ignores others. I located one that should have met the specifications of a silent section, but it was not flagged. I selected that section and used the generate silence function to ensure it would be recognized as silent, but when I rescanned the file for silence, it was again ignored.

I attached (I think) a screenshot of the greater than 10-second gap that was not detected, along with the scan settings.

-57dB is pretty quiet if it has any acoustic or analog noise. Maybe try -40dB or so, and you may have to choose between getting false-positives or false-negatives.

Thank you for the quick reply, DVDdoug.

Per your suggestion, I tried raising the criteria to -39, but a new scan didn’t change the outcome.

And remember, as an experiment, I used “Generate Silence” to produce a dead section lasting over 10 seconds at that point, so it should have easily detected a silence there.

???!!! Where are you finding the “Silence Finder” in 3.6.4? That useful tool does not appear in my “Analyze” menu.

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There is a serious disconnect here.

Let me know if you can’t open the .heic image attached. They show the command in question in the dropdown menu for Analyze in version 3.6.4 running on a Windows 10 Pro x64 system.

Stew

That’s new, to me. See the attached picture of my version. I think the version matches
yours, but the “Silence Finder” and “Sound Finder” are missing from my menu (there is nothing below “Measure RMS”). Of course, I can do it in “Label Finder”, but it is not as simple. Did you add a plugin, or did you download the Muse installer?

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