Originally Posted by Jim Lesurf[_2_]

In article , John R Leddy
wrote:
The SoX website appears to be down at the moment.
I'm trying to think of the things I've used Audacity for...
Deleting huge artistic silences between the visible and hidden last track of an album; and also cutting those types of tracks in two.
Reducing 24-bit 192kHz FLAC files to 24-bit 96kHz.
I've used the Amplify effect on speech files (old radio comedy), but bottled-out using it on music my files. Your thoughts concerning this would be most welcome.

Now I've opened this can of worms, here's a real-world issue which will probably never occur again.
I have a John Mayall "Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton" CD [EAN 0042284482721]
http://www.discogs.com/John-Mayall-W...release/448024
This CD contains both mono and stereo tracks which EAC has extracted to all being stereo.
I have separated the tracks into two directories:
John Mayall - 1966 - Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (Mono), and
John Mayall - 1969 - Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (Stereo)

I know you're aware I won't be held back by the minutiae, so whether all the tracks ultimately end up in one directory or two, those faux stereo tracks will be getting processed at some point. Before I drop them into Audacity [Tracks - Stereo Track to Mono], I would appreciate your best practice advice on what to do next.

I'm not sure what you're asking me TBH.

I'd probably use sox to make the tracks into flac files. And add the -c 1 option for the mono examples to get mono flac files. (Use stats at the end of the command to keep an eye on possible clipping, but it shouldn't happen.)

FWIW someone in the past found they got clipping with using Audacity to do a stereo - mono conversion as it added the values before dividing them by 2 to average. But I think they were using fixed point mode. Didn't check myself as I always use sox for such tasks. I just use audacity for things like click removal or LP captures.

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

Originally Posted by Jim Lesurf[_2_]

I'm not sure what you're asking me TBH.

I'm trying to think of the things I've used Audacity for...

I've used the Amplify effect (within Audacity) on speech files (old radio comedy), but bottled-out using it on music my files. Your thoughts concerning this would be most welcome.

Before I drop them (the faux stereo tracks) into Audacity [Tracks - Stereo Track to Mono], I would appreciate your best practice advice on what to do next.