Audacity Macros - Easily Apply Effects to Multiple Files

[@nicoheroesdx]

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! ^^

[@EricAdamsYT]

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.

[@DeltaStorybook]

For future reference, the exported files are in My Documents -> Audacity -> Macro Output [took forever to find]

[@sullyvanj93]

Exactly what I needed. Saved me MONTHS worth of time, as I'm working with thousands of separate audio files. Thank you!

[@pereirabrian]

Awesome. Just what I was searching for. 🙂

[@EricAdamsYT]

Glad to hear it!

[@otdosa]

REALLY helpful. had over 100 files, would have gone mad in the process.

[@michaelmilburn3094]

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

[@EricAdamsYT]

Thanks for the comment Michael. That sounds like a great use case for Audacity macros. Glad you found the video helpful.

[@Lisa-lz1zm]

This is great, I just learned something new today. Thank you so much!

[@chooyoon2]

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!!

[@EricAdamsYT]

Wonderful! I'm so glad it was helpful.

[@jslearner]

Clear instructions, Nice example, Thank you for saving me a bunch of time!

[@EricAdamsYT]

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!

[@DarylHadvard]

Thank you so much for this, it actually saved me a massive ammount of time !

[@dragonballz8623]

This saved more from hours of work, thank u so much!

[@BruceThomson]

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. =)

[@EricAdamsYT]

Really glad to hear that it helped you!

[@TJWolf]

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.

[@EricAdamsYT]

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

[@codegully_channel]

Thank you.. this was very helpful :)

[@EricAdamsYT]

I'm glad to hear it.

[@Jaksteroide]

Nice desktop environment!

[@EricAdamsYT]

Thanks!

[@engstudy123]

thank you so much, very detail.

[@vihan4335]

Thank you very much 😊

[@EricAdamsYT]

My pleasure. I'm glad it helped.

[@stanleystriker7065]

Thanks a ton for the step by step :)

[@EricAdamsYT]

Of course! I’m glad I could help.

[@treeoflife7151]

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.

[@EricAdamsYT]

That's so great to hear!

[@marcelosoto88]

thank you, I made a flash drive full of music for my dad's car, no more the tedious volume adjusting

[@zanthetp]

Helped me SO MUCH. Bless you

[@nikhilthapa9300]

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..

[@Max_811]

If you can't find the exported files, then it will probably be in Documents/Audacity/

[@EricAdamsYT]

Thanks for the tip!

[@pctlc]

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!!

[@MrPfsantos]

Thank you. It was what I needed.

[@starlightfox8982]

This is so helpful! thank you!

[@faisala3270]

Hi, how do I use the trim feature? I would like to remove the first 11 seconds of a large number of files

[@333donutboy]

Thanks for the info. This is just what I was looking for.

[@Dudebrotheguy]

In my case it just merges them in one file what am I doing wrong

[@EricAdamsYT]

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".

[@Dudebrotheguy]

@@EricAdamsYT No idea what the problem was Restarted my pc now it works as expected

[@EricAdamsYT]

@@Dudebrotheguy ok, great. Good that you thought to do that and glad it’s working. 👍

[@Dudebrotheguy]

@@EricAdamsYT Thanks man

[@BruceThomson]

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?

[@Intergoller]

How did you solved that problem?

[@photelegy]

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.

[@ArtyMars]

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

[@HidesFromSun]

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

[@EricAdamsYT]

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?

[@HidesFromSun]

​@@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

[@EricAdamsYT]

@@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.

[@HidesFromSun]

@@EricAdamsYT Yeah that's right. Thank you, let me know how you get on :)

[@EricAdamsYT]

@@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.

[@peterphilipgeorge50]

Thanks ♥️

[@maxpower6356]

Not bad. Good job.