Batch Processing with Chains in Audacity

How to process a bunch of audio files at once using Audacity

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Science & Technology

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• iShowU
• HD
• Audacity
• tutorial
• screencast
• batch
• chain
• multiple
• files
• audio
• sound
• processing

[kerowhack]

Thanks for the walkthrough. I have been trying to figure out how to apply a phaser and reverb to a bunch of files. This should help quite a bit. You might want to turn down/off your click sound in the future though, it was a little distracting. If you have the capability, 720p shows up much clearer when doing screen captures, too, but just minor triffles. Thanks, mate!

[gothickmatt]

@kerowhack Yup, will bear those points in mind for the future. I can definitely see what you mean. I was using pretty much the default settings and didn't have time to re-record!

[kuelhuna]

thanks, you helped me, great walkthrough, your a natural. :)

[Turama101]

Thanks for the Walkthrough. I am living in Temeife(Spain) and I wantet to slow down MP3-audiofiles by 15%. The batch handling worked fine thanks to your excellent explaination. I had some problems on the quality of the output, because the new audacity uses fixed bitrates 128 when writing the MP3. But that sounds horrible. Ifound out, that you con select variable in the MP3 output menu and that helped.

Thank you agait Matt

[BHSbiz]

Thanks Matt. It helped me out with 80 files I thought I'd have to edit individually.

[chordboard]

very good video and instructions on this, thanks!

[DeeTeeBR]

@farhaanmirza

"Re: Batch processing a folder

Postby kozikowski » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:00 pm

The individual components of Chains have to be programmed separate from their more normal versions. If you didn't find the Chain tool you're looking for, chances are it hasn't been programmed yet."

forumDOTaudacityteamDOTorg/vie­wtopicDOTphp?f=17&t=42299

[dbthanatos]

Thanks for the vid. I was aware how to add stuff to the chain and all that, but the hell if I could figure how to apply it. Never occurred to me to run the chain without any file open.

[paft]

I need to do the opposite and reduce the volume. This helped.

Nice run though, not those stupid ones where you have to watch someone type. Seeing a face is a new on to me. :)

Thanks.

[farhaanmirza]

You cannot include effects such as matrix reverb into the chain??

[MyDoominateR]

Nice guide, matt, cheers.