Patent ID: 7526348

Claim:
A method for automatic digital audio mixing of at least two digital audio files, comprising: reading said digital audio files; automatically determining scale factors for scaling each of said digital audio files based on an analysis of said digital audio files by a digital processing unit, the analysis including identifying a peak value and a mean level for each of the digital audio files; wherein each scale factor is based on an analysis of the entirety of each of said digital audio files relative to the other digital audio files in their entirety, the identified peak value, and the identified mean values for the digital audio files; applying each said scale factor to the entirety of each of said digital audio files respectively; the scale factors operable to adjust the identified mean levels of the audio files to substantially equivalent levels and adjust the audio files to a recording medium maximum level to create scaled digital audio files; combining each of said scaled digital audio files into a single audio recording output as a digital file on a storage medium; and storing the single audio recording output on a storage medium, such that it may be played back by an audio device.