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.”
Telegram auto-delete message, expiring invites, and more
elegram is updating its messaging app with options for auto-deleting messages, expiring invite links, and new unlimited groups, the company shared in a blog post. Much like Signal, Telegram received a burst of new users in the confusion over WhatsApp’s privacy policy and now the company is adopting features that were already part of its competitors’ apps, features which offer more security and privacy. Auto-deleting messages were already possible in Telegram’s encrypted Secret Chats, but this new update for iOS and Android adds the option to make messages disappear in any kind of chat. Auto-delete can be enabled inside of chats, and set to delete either 24 hours or seven days after messages are sent. Auto-delete won’t remove every message though; if a message was sent before the feature was turned on, it’ll stick around. Telegram’s competitors have had similar features: WhatsApp introduced a feature in 2020 and Signal has had disappearing messages since at least 2016.
