Feature Request: Create Markers by Peak (Label Sounds)

[ivosight]

It would be really helpful to have a method to create a marker at all places where the peak level goes above a certain threshold.   In Audacity this is called "Label Sounds".  I've attached a screenshot, but basically you tell it the level above which you want a label, then it runs through your file and creates a marker everywhere there's a peak above that.   

Where this comes in really hand for me is when I'm doing final mastering and getting ready for normalization or a limiter, I like to use a clipper on transients. so that the limiter doesn't have to work as hard and so that my normalization isn't stunted by a couple of big transients.  Right now I'm having to scroll through the whole file to look for them, which can take quite a while in a 60 minute file.

I've attached a screenshot of what this looks like in Audacity.  Thanks for considering this!

Edit:

Thinking more about this, another way to go about this would be to have a feature for "jump to next peak of xx db".  Then I could normalize the set to -.1 db and just keep jumping to the next item that hit that .1db limit to decide if I want to cut it or not.    This might actually be even better and hopefully easier to code.

Thanks!

Hi，

Thank you for reaching out.

Maybe you can try Mark Audio Range in the Detector panel. Welcome your further suggestions.

   

Best regards.