Audacity Forum

Steve, I do feel rather foolish - could have sworn my version 1.2.6 previously returned to 'Audacity' label when track deleted. As mitigating circumstances, your honour, the defendant claims he finds it confusing to have a track label in the absence of a track.Also, he's 60 next week so brain not wh...

Steve
Your description is exactly right.
For me this is a 'problem' as over past3 yrs clickin X would have closed track as well as waveform so top LH corner would alwways return to 'Audacity' label
Baffled and puzzled,j

Steve Following your instructions I edited audacity.cfg then tried opening and closing previously reliable wav's (From TrackItDown) with Audacity 1.3.12 but again same symptoms - close track waveform by clicking on X but clearly actual track is still there (its name still in top LH corner of screen ...

Thanks, Steve. Both problems persist in 1.3.12 - (a) Although tracks sound ok, their wave form becomes massively clipped and loudness meter goes into red (b) when closing the track by clicking X, the track label remains in top LH corner where I'd expect to see 'Audacity' label, then when closing Aud...

Koz,
Uninstall, delete Audacity Software Registry file, Reinstall Audacity definitely has no effect on either the clipping or the failure to close tracks by clicking X
One of Life's mysteries, is this
Thanks again
J

Koz! Sorry so slow to work through all your responses. (a) I sterilised the Preferences by deleting the Audacity Software key in the Registry (very nervously) but Audacity behaviour unaffected so I did System Restore to return to status quo. (b) 'Cleaning Hard Drive' = ChkDsk error check,defrag, CCl...

Happily used Audacity 1.2.6 for last 3yr on Windows XP laptop. UNTIL last couple of days when opening previously reliable MP3 & WAV files in Audacity 1.2.6 they seem massively amplified so that most of the tune is very badly clipped. I've tried uninstalling, cleaning hard drive reinstalling Auda...