# Stretching

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/stretching/46894>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [October 1, 2017, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/stretching/46894 "2017-10-01T09:21:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![steve](https://forum.audacityteam.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@steve](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/steve)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/stretching/46894/21 "2019-10-20T17:23:57Z")

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> Is the some “find the loudest track” tool?

“Loudest” and “highest peak” are not necessarily the same thing. Example: a 0.8 amplitude 100 Hz square wave sounds much louder than a 0.8 amplitude 100 Hz (as you can demonstrate yourself with the “Tone” generator: [Tone - Audacity Manual](https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tone.html))

For finding the highest peak level, you could try this plug-in: [Find peak](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/find-peak/54287/1)

For finding the “loudest”, you could try the “Analyze” option in this plug-in: [ReplayGain plug-in](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/replaygain/22589/1)  
Note that this one needs to be applied to one track at a time and the track with the lowest (or most negative) ReplayGain level is the loudest.

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