At this point, I'm fairly sure this approach is naive. There is a merit in the realm of analyzing periodicity and in the fact that audacity, from my understanding, works on the basis of a FFT of the wave itself. But as stated before, a shot in the dark was all it was, it was a miss, but hey, it was an interesting thought. When I learn more about signal analysis I might take another look at this concept, but until then, I'll put a fork in this one.