Unexplicable volume decrease in the middle of the song after Export

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello, All!

I have Windows 10 and Audacity 2.3.3

I have one song, which is a multi-track audio project

My problem is: I have noticed a subtle but hearable volume decrease after exporting all the tracks into one audio (the problem is always there for different audio formats: .wav, .ogg, .mp3)

This decrease starts in one random point inside the song

If I hear the song inside Audacity, there is no decrease at all!

But, after export, hearing the exported file I clearly notice this decrease in the volume starting from a certain point: the volume is normal and steady before it; after it, it decreases and then remains steady again

(In another song, I had the same problem, but I was able to remove the volume decrease, since I had found it was linked to clipping: I had removed the clipping and exported again, and the exported file now showed no volume-decrease. But the current song has no clipping whatsoever…)

I need to make a music demo out of this song, so for me it is very important that it will have the best quality/consistency possible!

Any ideas about reason(s) for this unexplicable volume decrease to happen?

Thank you very much!
Tommy

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Perhaps the software that you are playing the file with is automatically adjusting the playback level.

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You are right, the problem was the player… I was using MPC-HC… I have tried with another one (VLC) and the problem actually disappeared! I should have tried from the beginning more than one player, but I didn’t think to that because -before now- MPC-HC had never given me any problem…

Thank you, Steve!