Cleaning Up "Untitled Audio" Files

I used to not name a project until after i'd recorded multipe tracks, so over the months i've accumulated a lot of "untitled audio" tracks numbered from 1-300 or so. Is there any way to see which files were used for which song so I can properly rename them and click and drag them to their respective folders? Thanks...

Hi, i'll bet you've started to label them as you now.............
Anyway, in any given song, the audio window will have all the files active in that song, at least.
"select unused" and save to a separate folder.(call it "unused audio")
label the clips that are left.
check the arrange page, for this change.
after all songs are done like this, every song folder should have an "unused audio" folder, which you can ripe out and trash.
all other clips, in the Bounce and Audio Files folder should be labelled.
there's more than one way to do this, but a shorter way......?
best, david r.

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Hi, new on this forum here. Any help would be appreciated.
I have over 1000 audio files in mp3 format at 96 bit. The audio files are normalized at 95.7. These files are preaching sermons at about 2 hours in length a piece (by the same person). They were recorded through the 1950s to the 1960s. The earlier ones were poor in quality while the later ones became pretty good. I would like to set the bass and treble equalization on all of the files to a decent level, and then take out some of the background noise in the earlier ones.
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As a listener, I wouldn't expect a sermon recorded almost 60 years ago to have pristine audio characteristics. With that, like a jazz song from the 20s or 30s, I'd be more concerned with content and would ignore hums and clicks.
Since they are going to be poor audio quality anyway, you aren't going to lose much if you open them, process, and resave as an MP3. Yes you will lose quality, but since they're compromised already, how much worse are you going to make it? What you can't do - in my opinion - is process them with a batch file. What you are trying to do is far to program content (ie sound quality) dependant.
What I would do is open the files one by one. Apply Noise Reduction after capturing the appropriate noise floor. Parametric EQ, mostly the hi and lo shelf for a little brightening, then Dynamics Processing to compress the dyamic range a bit to let it be more audible on the soft passages. Save the files as mono MP3's to save space and stream easier. The sermons from my church recordings are 44.1/48kbs mono MP3 files and they sound OK for what they are ... they serve the purpose they were intended for.
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did anyone know how to clean up the unused recording files??then,we can have more capacity of H.Disk...
Is it do it everything in (File ->Project ->Consolidated?
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Unfortunately, PrE has chosen an arrangement, where Audio & Video Tracks are grouped. I like the PrPro layout, where all Video Tracks are above a "centerline" and all Audio Tracks are below that.
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Hello.
This may sound funny and not to related to any of this at first, but if anyone here knows about the game portal, then they know about the ARG that went on during last week and may even still be continuing. None of thats really important but if anyone cares to know, basically VALVe released a new update with 30 new sounds, 26 of them moarse code/sstv pictures. 3 of them called dinosaur_fizzle 1 2 and 3. Infact, each one was named dino_1 dino_2 and so on.
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Now this started March 1st. Since then i have worked hours on the audio file. I have gotten close, but not close enough.
Thats why im turning to someone here, that can do a through analysis of the audio that adobe or reaper just cannot do.
In the attachments is the original file itself with no editing what so ever.
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Frequencies of interest
An analysis was undertaken to find the strongest frequencies acting within "dinosaur_noise". Linear and Logarithmic curves showed sets of dominant figures, with the most being:
Frequency (Hz)
Comments
9092
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Very faint
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Very faint
7657
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7502
Largest spike in the 4000-9000Hz band
3502
various noise between 3502 and 3510
360
Another very visible wave. This was the most pronounced visible wave in the Logarithmic scale
35
The most dominant low frequency wave
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Time(in samples)
Comments
55402
First broad spike
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Second broad spike
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Third broad spike
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Fifth broad spike
Silence in the frequency ranges is located in the band of 10.567 - 15.337 KHz. All frequencies above that are likely to be high frequency poinoning from the FFT process.
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http://pastebin.com/r90fEtnd C++ code
Actual files in attachments
Attachments:
dinonoise.zip ‏2554 KB

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