Evening out the volume on a playlist

[Bob Bell]

Peak level is NOT the same as "loudness". Loudness is subjective, not an absolute measure. The only really accurate way to determine whether one track is louder than another is to listen to them.

Obviously, you are quite right. I was trying to determine the quietest one out of seventy. That is what I meant by it not being feasible to remember, for example, the volume of track 12 versus track 39. Guess I start at the beginning and go through them sequentially. I'll check out your plug in - thanks for the tip.

and your idea of "loud" may be slightly different to my idea of "loud" (though generally people tend to agree more or less, so long as they do not suffer from hearing problems.

I've lost close to half my hearing, but loud is comparative! As long as all are at the relatively same volume, all will be well. The big problem here, of course, is that these tracks have been mastered by 70 different folk, so they are by definition going to sound 'different'. But that is GOOD!

Thanks again Steve,

Bob

[Bob Bell]

On two or thee occasions when playing a tune, it will just stop. Without touching the mouse, totally hands free. I go back to the song, and start it again, and it plays all the way through perfectly. This has happened on different songs, not the same one.

Any suggestions?

Bob

[Bob Bell]

It just did it again. I was sitting on my hands.

[steve]

If there is a "selection" (part of the track highlighted) then play will begin at the start of the selection and stop at the end of the selection.

[Bob Bell]

If there is a "selection" (part of the track highlighted) then play will begin at the start of the selection and stop at the end of the selection.

Nothing selected or highlighted that I am able to see. I am playing heads and tails to compare volume .... sometimes I let the entire track play through. Usually I listen to the first twenty / thirty seconds, and then to the last ten / twenty seconds, and then into the next one .... it seems to be when I let the track play through when it happens. As long as it isn't actually in the file, I guess it doesn't matter.

Bob

[Gale Andrews]

On two or thee occasions when playing a tune, it will just stop. Without touching the mouse, totally hands free. I go back to the song, and start it again, and it plays all the way through perfectly. This has happened on different songs, not the same one.

Have you got all 70 songs imported at once? That might be asking rather a lot.

If you only have one track then what playback device are you using? "Audio to buffer" in Audacity's Recording Preferences might be set too low - that setting affects playback too.


Gale

[Bob Bell]

I mistakenly clicked on Time Shift and now cannot 'unclick' it. How do I do that? I looked in the manual, but it doesn't seem to address that issue.
Thanks,
Bob

[Bob Bell]

Have you got all 70 songs imported at once? That might be asking rather a lot.

Thanks Gale. I do indeed have all 70 tunes imported. So far this morning this stopping issue has not occurred ... keeping my fingers crossed!

Bob

[Bob Bell]

I am now at the Export stage. I chose Export Multiple from the File menu, and designated a Folder & location. After clicking Export, the Metadata box comes up, which gives me a chance to tidy up the info on each file. As expected, Track 1 came up first, and then track 3. As all my tracks are numbered sequentially, I cannot understand what happened to it. It is still present in the playlist.

I want to move on with this project, but am leery of going ahead and completing the meta data for all the files and then coming back to track 2, just in case something weird happens.

Help please !

Bob

[Bob Bell]

I just scrolled down to Track 15 in Metadata. By the time I reached number 15, three tracks had 'dropped out'. I haven't gone on to number 70, but at this rate, if I had I am sure there would be many more missing. As I said in the last post, all these tracks are numbered sequentially, starting at 201 and ending at 270.

I am puzzled!

Bob