Audacity Forum

rp88.2 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:34 pm

When I replied yesterday, Windows updates, etc. didn't show additional updates. Then today... it installed the Feature update. So, at this point. I don't know what to tell you. Both 2.3.3r and 2.4.2 are working.

That's good news. Thanks for the update.

Rather than closing it down completely (with the risk of forgetting to re-enable it), better to white-list ".AU" files (if your antivirus allows you to do that). When recording, Audacity writes the audio data as AU files. If your antivirus is scanning every data file as it is written, that...

Here's a couple of 5 second tones. 32-bit float mono and 32-bit float stereo.
See if you can encode them to APE from the command line.

happy37 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 4:52 pm

Having shut it down, things are/were so much better.

That's the anti-virus that you are shutting down?

To recap (and save me from reading through 3 pages of messages), the problem occurs during recording?

Does the encoder support 32-bit float input?

ACX strongly recommend to NOT use a noise gate.

happy37 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 4:36 pm

Makes no sense to me.

Yes, very strange.

Same mouse for both machines?

when I reset config on my latest installation it all just trots back to the systemwide default Yes, that's expected after resetting preferences, but you should then be able to "cleanly" set the required language in the Preference settings. Note that some of the translations are incomplete...

happy37 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 4:03 pm

Drivers are up to date Steve on this affected machine.

and on the "good" machine?

If you enable the "Show output" option in the export dialog, and then run what is shown in the "Command Output" screen?