Hi there,
I have created a small macro in Audacity (installed from the Manjaro repo) to adjust the loudness of a sound file. Finally, the whole thing is to be exported as an mp3.
Unfortunately this does not work. I get the following error message:
“The export cannot be continued.
/home/username/Documents does not have write permissions.”
Does anyone have any ideas?
This an ambigous message - the application might see a non-existing folder as not having write permission.
Ensure the folder exist
Hah, you’re right.
Audacity expects an existing Documents folder and not my German “Dokumente” folder.
I’ll probably have to find out where I can find the default settings for this macro command and adjust them. Unfortunately, this is not possible directly from the macro settings in Audacity.
Thank you!
You could just create a ~/Documents/ directory that is a symbolic link to the ~/Dokumente/ directory:
ln -s ~/Dokumente ~/Documents
Thanks for the tip!
But I would also like to adjust the mp3 encoder settings, which strangely enough is not directly possible in the macro function.
After further investigation I think Audacity always using the same mp3 export parameters and export folder is a bug in the Export as mp3 macro function. The macro version should use the last settings from the File/Export Audio menu but that does not happen in Audacity version 3.7.0.
I’m not sure what your purpose is, but I’d recommend trying sox.
sox in.flac out.flac gain -l 3
fd -e flac -x sox "{}" "{}"___new.flac gain -l 3
Even if there are 1000 songs to process, it will be done while you are taking a bath.
sudo pacman -S sox # archLinux(Manjaro)
Unfortunately SoX doesn’t allow normalization to a specific LUFS value. And it seems to be out of development since 2015 according to SourceForge.
My task is to normalize a bunch of Flac-files to a certain LUFS value and save them as high quality VBR mp3s via batch processing.
Audacity macro LAME export allows use of additional CLI parameters
Exporting using an external encoder program - Audacity Manual
lame options allow user to specify encoder settings, write ID3 tags and use ReplayGain loudness scanning
lame — Arch manual pages
ReplayGain - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
My task is to normalize a bunch of Flac-files to a certain LUFS value
There are also some Linux audio players that support R128 loudness scanning
ReplayGain - Implementations - Wikipedia
I use a Deadbeef plugin for scanning whole albums or short playlists, but CLI tools are faster for processing larger batches
AUR - loudgain
A loudness normalizer that scans music files and calculates loudness-normalized gain and loudness peak values according to the EBU R128 standard, and can optionally write ReplayGain-compatible metadata
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