Audacity Forum

Did anyone ever solve the problem of Audacity breaking after a Windows update problem? Haven't been able to use it since, and the WASAPI fix mentioned didn't work either. Thx. See here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=100117 Apparently this applies to all recording devices, ...

There's a few ideas here that may or may not help (they didn't help the person that was asking, but perhaps still worth a look): https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 4c416fb119

Is it worse or better with Audacity 2.2.2 ? (available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/)

I wonder if there's an easy way to tell when the tools are going to poop out. In many cases it's platform dependent. On 64-bit Linux, most Nyquist effects can manage very long files, subject to the amount of available memory installed. On Windows, several Nyquist effects crash at around 2,147,483,6...

The log looks normal.

Check that your anti-virus / security products are not scanning Audacity when it first launches.
Provided that you know that your copy of Audacity is not infected with anything nasty, it is safe to white-list it in your security apps.

Posting here due to my OS That is generally preferred. Even when the question is not OS specific, the answers often are. Audio track Label track 1 Label track 2 Label track 3 Export -> only "Label track 2.txt" Click on the [ X ] in the top left corner of Label track 1 to delete it. Do the...

This issue was not occurring with an older Nvidia NVS 300 graphics card That would strongly point the finger at the Nvidia GT 1030. I have not reinstalled the old card to see if it has any effect I'd suggest that you do that. If installing the old card fixes the problem, then that would be strong c...

Steve18 wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:02 pm

So it will add track names

No. It will add track numbers to the metadata.
If you enable the option "Show Metadata Tags editor before export", then you will see what it is doing, and have the opportunity to update fields as necessary (this option is enabled by default).

Audacity has one set of metadata per project . When using Export Multiple, you can enter information into the Metadata Editor before starting the export. Export Multiple automatically adds track numbers to the metadata, counting up from '1'. If anything else in the metadata needs to change from one ...

VLC is good. It's free (open source), it works on Windows, Mac and Linux, and it supports a huge range of file formats.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/