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That's a lot of characters to add when the file is being moved to a temporary folder anyway. 26 additional characters (".mp4" has been replaced by ".tmp"). That still allows you up to 229 characters for the file name. The thing that concerns me most is that you say it causes Audacity to lock up. Wh...

Any way to get Audacity NOT to add on the extra characters? Not that I know of. What characters is it adding? What was the original file name? Looking at the error message I posted the original file name is: The Carpenters_ The Essential Collection (1965-1997) [Box Set]-05-Karen_Ella Medley (This M...

steve wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:18 pm

If you are using APFS (Apple File System), according to Wikipedia, it has a file name limit of 255 characters.

Yes, I know that. Any way to get Audacity NOT to add on the extra characters?

There's a small Mac application called Max that will do this. -- Bill Only it doesn't normalize the audio, which is what I'm trying to do. Audacity 2.0.3 made it through all but ~600 songs when it tossed an error writing to the .tmp file for several songs. Not sure just what it is trying to do, but...

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:25 pm

Please post a screenshot.

Will do, soon as the current task finishes - 817 so far!

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:23 pm

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Many of the commands you will recognise from the names of Audacity's effects. There's a list of all the standard shipped effects here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/index_of_effects_generators_and_analyzers.html The Macro commands are basically the same as the "Scripting" commands (used when ...

I am still not receiving notifications. Any other settings?

Right now I am run-in them thru the old version (2.0.3) and it is well beyond where 2.3.3 locked up (340 files an counting). This will take ~15 hrs to complete, after that I will try 500.

I ran a self-created macro against a collection of audio files (3,637 files), every time it locks the system up (Mac 10.13.6, Audacity 2.3.2). It's not always on the same file, the latest run stopped on file #98, so it's not making it in very far. I have a screenshot (taken with my phone) at the tim...