Automatic Gain Control in Python?

[MRAB]

On 2022-05-29 01:17, Steve GS wrote:
> "My first thought is you are solving the wrong problem. What seems a better
> option would be to get your code to actually connect up to the podcast and
> just download the audio directly, rather than trying to get the smart
> speaker to play the audio and record it with a microphone."
> 
> The smart-speaker is bringing in the podcast by hourly automated commands
> and sending by audio cable to a computer which is recording it with
> Audacity.  This is an automated system that runs for 48 hours every weekend.
> Its output is played live throughout the facility and is also recorded for
> replay through the week.
> 
> No download to use.
> 
> AGC is to happen when the Smart Speaker is playing it, real time.
> Any post-record editing would be a horrendous task to say the least.
> 
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Why would post-record editing be "horrendous"?

Does it record the whole 48 hours into 1 file?

If it's recording each podcast separately, it could process each one 
after recording it, even while the next one is being recorded, and I 
really doubt that processing each one while take long.