Audacity Macros - Easily Apply Effects to Multiple Files
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- A quick tip today about how to use the Macro feature available in the Audacity audio editing software. It allows you to create multi-step processes that can apply effects and other transformations to one or more files. In my case, I wanted to reduce the volume of some mp3 files but didn't want to do it one at a time. I created a macro to reduce the volume by about 50% and then ran it against all of the files at once. Magic!
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Thank you so much,
I was so close to downloading some potentially harmful programms. But thank god, I found this video before and now I found out about these super useful macro function!
And reducing the volume of +800 files didn't sound like fun to me! ^^
That's great to hear! I can imagine that would take FOREVER to do one at a time. I'm glad to know this made your life a little easier.
Exactly what I needed. Saved me MONTHS worth of time, as I'm working with thousands of separate audio files. Thank you!
Thank you!!! Frankly speaking I can't understand the AUdacity Macro Manual for how to amplify many mp3 files at once in audacity ^^ Your video tells me the great solution very easily!!
Wonderful! I'm so glad it was helpful.
For future reference, the exported files are in My Documents -> Audacity -> Macro Output [took forever to find]
Thanks for the walkthrough. Using this to batch process a a bunch of podcasts to speed them up for my old school mp3 player (select all - change tempo + 64.5 - export mp3). It's running in the background now. I used to do this manually on Sound Forge Audio Studio 10, but from what I can tell I can't batch process there. Looks like audicity can do the batch process, and your tutorial was a great step-by-step. thank you
Thanks for the comment Michael. That sounds like a great use case for Audacity macros. Glad you found the video helpful.
Brilliantly useful, thank you for creating this guide. I'd been hacking round without success.
I have sets of 80 files (a sound font set for an electronic concertina I and a friend have created).
This will save me and others hours of hassle. =)
Really glad to hear that it helped you!
thank you, I made a flash drive full of music for my dad's car, no more the tedious volume adjusting
Awesome. Just what I was searching for. 🙂
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much for this, it actually saved me a massive ammount of time !
Clear instructions, Nice example, Thank you for saving me a bunch of time!
I'm really glad to hear it helped you. Thank you for taking the time to comment and let me know. Have a great day!
thank you! i have ~20 lecture files which i got from youtube and the speaker's style is pretty unique with a lot of silences in between words. audacity's truncate silence effect makes it so much more understandable. and now i can automatize the process.
That's so great to hear!
Nice desktop environment!
Thanks!
This saved more from hours of work, thank u so much!
Thank you.. this was very helpful :)
I'm glad to hear it.
Helped me SO MUCH. Bless you
Thanks a ton for the step by step :)
Of course! I’m glad I could help.
Thank you very much 😊
My pleasure. I'm glad it helped.
If you can't find the exported files, then it will probably be in Documents/Audacity/
Thanks for the tip!
Hi Eric, nice tip there mate! I've used Audacity a few times in the past for audio volume adjustment, also have used mp3gain which is a useful app as well, didn't know Audacity was this handy for multiple files, thanks for the video!!
It's not working for me, for some reason. It just fast-lists the source files, but doesn't process each file, nor does it create a new folder for the processed files. The originals are not altered at all. 'Anyone have an answer?
have a folder containing about 500 .aup3 files with beats are marked. I could export the labels and get the .txt file containing annotations for a single .aup3 file but I have got so many.. so do you possibly know any way to do it in a single go? exporting labels for each file is too tedious..
Omg thankyou i have like 300 MP3's i need to convert to silent subliminals and i was NOT ready to do them all manually ugh haha
Thanks for tip @Eric. I have never used Audacity before. will be looking out for more tutorials. What distro are you running and environment I really like that theme and how light that brown is it's so beautiful not too dark of brown.
Definitely worth checking out Audacity. It's pretty fantastic for audio work. I am running Cinnamon on a stock Arch install with the Mint themes installed. The one in the video is the Brown variant. The wallpaper is a random colorized image of Jupiter. github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes
Not bad. Good job.
Thanks for the info. This is just what I was looking for.
Thank you. It was what I needed.
Is there a Command to change the volume (Gain) on the left side on the track (under "Mute", "Solo" with the - and + sign)?
Is it possible to export a audio-file from multiple importet audio-files, so that those exportet audio-files are differently mixed in volume?
E.g.:
Export-Configuration 1:
- Audio-Lane 1: 100% (Volume)
- Audio-Lane 2: 30% (Volume)
- Audio-Lane 3: 30% (Volume)
Export-Configuration2:
- Audio-Lane 1: 80%
- Audio-Lane 2: 100%
- Audio-Lane 3: 20%
Export-Configuration3:
...
But with even more Auio-Lanes and Export-Configurations!
Because I need to edit those Audio-Lanes and export them again in those Export-Configurations. And it takes way to much time to adjust all Volumes each time again for all those Export-Configurations.
This is so helpful! thank you!
Hi, how do I use the trim feature? I would like to remove the first 11 seconds of a large number of files
In my case it just merges them in one file what am I doing wrong
Do you have an export line in your macro? I just tested using one that has "Change Pitch" and "Export MP3", apply it to files, select a bunch of files, click Open and it goes through each file, imports it, applies the pitch change, and exports the file as an MP3 in a subfolder named "macro-output".
@@EricAdamsYT No idea what the problem was
Restarted my pc now it works as expected
@@Dudebrotheguy ok, great. Good that you thought to do that and glad it’s working. 👍
@@EricAdamsYT Thanks man
Does anyone know how to switch track with Macro's? I need to change the pitch of 2 tracks in one project (different pitches), and i'm not sure how to do it
Take a look at the macro UI. The Insert option when creating a macro lists a number of track specific items related to switching to (i.e. move to track) or selecting a track (select track). Is this what you mean?
@@EricAdamsYT I think that's it, yes, that's definitely helped, thank you. Sadly though I still can't get it to work properly. I need to load the file > Duplicate it > Select the first track > change the pitch > Export
The Macro i'm trying to use is
Select All
Duplicate
Move Focus to First Track
Change Pitch (-10)
Export as WAV
For some reason though it's sounding different than when i'm doing it manually, and i'm not sure why
@@HidesFromSun I assume you are using the same setting when you are performing this step manually, correct? I'll see if I can duplicate this.
@@EricAdamsYT Yeah that's right. Thank you, let me know how you get on :)
@@HidesFromSun I played around with this a bit and I'm not sure why you are duplicating the track. I think that's what's causing the difference is sound. What's happening in that there are two tracks, both have the filter applied and it is creating an odd distortion because of it. I created a macro that 1) Select All 2) Change Pitch 3) Export2 (filename and path and 1 channel). This gives me a wav copy of the original with the pitch adjustment and it sounds the same as doing it manually.
Thanks ♥️