Audacity (free, GPL Win, Linux, Mac) to Normalize the audio if the m4b audiobook volume is too low. This is very rare that you'll encounter such a case.
First export from freac. In General Settings under Output filenames put
Filename pattern: <title>
Each chapter will be encoded and output to matching the chapter name. Uncheck Encode to a single file Encoder choose opus 32kbps or as high as the original bitrate as these files need to be re-encode three times in total.
1) in Audacity import all chapter files at once. Select All (Ctrl-A) then Effect | Normalize.
2) For that rare chapter if the wavelength doesn't go up like the rest double click on the track to highlight both tracks then Effect | Amplify and choose an Amplification (db) of whatever kind of matches the height of the other track waveforms.
3) File | Export | Export Multiple and choose mp3 or ogg. Don't lower the bitrate lower than the original.
Using Audacity seems a tad quicker to use for normalization than Ocenaudio next post.
Audacity (free, GPL Win, Linux, Mac) to Normalize the audio if the m4b audiobook volume is too low. This is very rare that you'll encounter such a case.
First export from freac. In General Settings under Output filenames put
Filename pattern: <title>
Each chapter will be encoded and output to matching the chapter name. Uncheck Encode to a single file Encoder choose opus 32kbps or as high as the original bitrate as these files need to be re-encode three times in total.
1) in Audacity import all chapter files at once. Select All (Ctrl-A) then Effect | Normalize.
2) For that rare chapter if the wavelength doesn't go up like the rest double click on the track to highlight both tracks then Effect | Amplify and choose an Amplification (db) of whatever kind of matches the height of the other track waveforms.
3) File | Export | Export Multiple and choose mp3 or ogg. Don't lower the bitrate lower than the original.
Using Audacity seems a tad quicker to use for normalization than Ocenaudio next post.
n the U.S. people generally use Bitcoin as an alternative investment, helping diversify a portfolio apart from stocks and bonds. You can also use Bitcoin to make purchases, but the number of vendors that accept the cryptocurrency is still limited. Big companies that accept Bitcoin include Overstock, AT&T and Twitch. You may also find that some small local retailers or certain websites take Bitcoin, but you’ll have to do some digging. That said, PayPal has announced that it will enable cryptocurrency as a funding source for purchases this year, financing purchases by automatically converting crypto holdings to fiat currency for users. “They have 346 million users and they’re connected to 26 million merchants,” says Spencer Montgomery, founder of Uinta Crypto Consulting. “It’s huge.”
Should I buy bitcoin?
“To the extent it is used I fear it’s often for illicit finance. It’s an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions, and the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering,” the former Fed chairwoman said. Yellen’s comments have been cited as a reason for bitcoin’s recent losses. However, Yellen’s assessment of bitcoin as a inefficient medium of exchange is an important point and one that has already been raised in the past by bitcoin bulls. Using a volatile asset in exchange for goods and services makes little sense if the asset can tumble 10% in a day, or surge 80% over the course of a two months as bitcoin has done in 2021, critics argue. To put a finer point on it, over the past 12 months bitcoin has registered 8 corrections, defined as a decline from a recent peak of at least 10% but not more than 20%, and two bear markets, which are defined as falls of 20% or more, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
