I've been slicing and dicing with Audacity for years and I've never run into this problem. I've got a song here I'm mucking around with and the second audio track I import is consistently playing at a lower level than the first track. It's apparently JUST this song - I tested some others without a problem.
Thinking maybe it was just Audacity, I exported a section of the spliced song and opened it up in WMP. Sure enough, it plays back the same way - what was on the first track is noticeably louder than what was on the second.
Both waveforms look exactly the same in the original Audacity project file. Bearing this in mind, I brought this test section back into Audacity and discovered that the waveform of the spliced file reflects the change in "volume" - it looks similar to what would happen if I had normalized the first track and left the second track alone. The waveform is HUGE for the first track part and but normal for the second.
Thoughts? Suggestions? I can't just try ripping the song again because I don't have the CD anymore. I also don't really want to normalize the audio and make everything "equal" that way because the song doesn't need it and really comes out sounding rather poor.




