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Audacity itself will not compile with VS2010 and I could not get it to recognize the wxWidgets DLLs when I built them with VS2010. You might need to install MS VC++ 2008 and build with that.

Things got MUCH more interesting this evening after service. [...] Three hours later, that's a big drive!, disk was again readable and the recording files WERE there! All was safe and sound... I hope. I hope I'm not the bearer of bad tidings here... Following much the same steps, though in this cas...

I may have experienced the "rare corruption" last week. The Audacity Team is trying very hard to pin down the problem(s) causing this rare fragility of Audacity Projects on disk. If you think you might have a related problem, or you see a dialog about "orphan block files" "...

Hi David! It might not help, but it is worth a try...AFAIR, there is a "design flaw" (a bug by any other name...) in the 1.3.13beta which can cause the symptoms you describe. It has been partially improved (which made a lot of difference for those reporting the problem but did not complete...

I spent quite a while looking at file requester dialogs today on Windows and see that for the open file dialog the code devolves directly to one of the OS's generic dialogs. In Window's case it devolves to a version available at least as far back as Win2k (it does not recognize that there is a new f...

klimmbimm wrote: So I decided to to let the matter rest for now.

The faster/safer distinction is interesting but probably out of my depth to resolve. I always use "safer". At least you have a handle on the the problem and a work-around now.

As I recall, some recent work was done on Chain--you might want to grab the nightly:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... tly_Builds

I DLed your code and will try to get some time to see if I can repro your problem. Do you have any clue if song length is critical? Are you working in stereo or mono? After importing your WAV, what is the Project Rate (left-most item on the Selection toolbar)? pr.png My plan is to create a few waves...

I checked out the latest Beta development source code I am still experiencing weird behavior if I save a (wave) file under its own file name. Could it be, that the saving process is interrupted by any code? To answer that final question, you will need to do a bit of detective work. If the problem o...

Sometimes a picture is helpful... open em.png In the above you see that menu item File > Open... is used to open Audacity Projects stored on disk. On the other hand, you import (menu item File > Import audio files and other non-Project stuff . The is a lot of user confusion on this issue. The Audaci...