The menu entry Apply Macro to Files doesn't appear stopping me from applying my macros to multiple files

Programming and Development Macros and Scripting
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I have created a macro to convert mp3 audio files to wav format audio files but the Apply Macro to Files menu entry doesn’t appear so I can’t process multiple files at once. Can anyone help?

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I’m not sure why this is posted in an Audacity forum.

The command to convert an mp3 file to wav looks like this…

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wav

Audacity is not needed at all to do this.

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Click the “Files” button at the bottom of the Macro Manager dialog.

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Thank you Steve - Yes once I found it it was as clear as day - male domestic blindness I think it is called.

Now I want to add 0.2 second to the start of each wav file but I can’t find a simple way to do it - do you know of one?

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ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -af "adelay=200ms:all=true" output.wav
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Select:Start="0" End="0.2"
Repeat:Count="1"
Select:Start="0" End="0.2"
Silence:Use_Preset="<Current Settings>"
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@ Wrecks0 : Yes there are many other ways to batch process audio files, but this is the Audacity forum, where Audacity users can learn how to use Audacity effectively. As SALACA is asking how to write Audacity macros, it would be courteous to keep to the topic.