Audacity Forum

NintendoBro wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2020 2:53 am

it still turns into 2 mono tracks

What exactly does that mean?
What turns into 2 mono tracks?
Where do you see 2 mono tracks?

Side note: I don't know _why it fixed it. I would not expect an effect to move any samples or clips, I would only expect an effect to modify the amplitudes of the samples. Same here. I wouldn't have expected an effect to move any samples or clips, and I can't reproduce the problem, but I'm on Linux...

Yes, I can reproduce that. I think it's an undocumented "feature". It seems to be consistent with other commands (such as applying an effect), and it's the same for me with 2.4.1 and 2.4.0. If the Macro applies multiple effects, all the effects are applied to the correct track, then when c...

martinmarty wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:05 pm

Is this a bug or something inherent in MP3 format?

It's inherent in MP3 format.
Formats that don't have this limitation include: WAV, FLAC, OGG, AIFF.

Which version of Audacity do you have?

Not yet.
There's a huge amount of work involved in just releasing 3 versions (Windows, Mac, Linux) and we don't want to drop support for 32-bit Windows.
Please note that we have dropped support for Windows 7 (as have Microsoft), though Audacity 2.4.2 will probably still work on Windows 7.

I'm not able to reproduce the problem, but try this:

"Edit menu > Preferences > Tracks Behaviors"
Enable the option: "Editing a clip can move other clips"

Please note that Windows 7 is no longer officially supported.
Following your steps, this is what I get:

In older versions of Audacity, recording or importing more than two channels would produce one stereo track, and all of the other tracks would be mono. That has been changed in recent versions of Audacity. What happens now is that recording or importing more than two channels produces one mono track...

These steps are specifically for building a release version of Audacity 2.4.2 ( available now ) on Ubuntu 20.04. For simplicity, the steps are deliberately kept to a minimum without any additional options. Prerequisites: 1) Repository sources (sources.list) must include source code sources. 2) For M...