3.4 bug - Why is Audacity splitting stereo tracks into separate tracks for each channel when I move other files in other tracks?

Pandaphonic · November 4, 2023, 1:25pm

I am using Audacity on a M1 MacBook Air, OS 12.1.
I just updated to 3.4. I use Audacity to produce my weekly radio music program. I drag the song files into Audacity and then move them around so each segment is two tracks so the songs can overlap and I can edit the transitions.
After updating to 3.4 I am finding that when I move a file from one track to another, Audacity seemingly randomly splits OTHER files in other tracks into separate L and R channel tracks. Sometimes it’s every track, sometimes it’s just one or two. This is highly undesirable. Is anybody else reporting this problem? It’s a big one.

jademan · November 4, 2023, 1:54pm

The developers have been addressing stereo track rendering improvements for 3.4. If you can, please provide a screenshot or video describing this issue.

waxcylinder · November 4, 2023, 3:35pm

This is a known and logged bug:
Transporting Audio Clips to Other Stereo Tracks Splits Tracks to Mono

github.com/audacity/audacity

Transporting Audio Clips to Other Stereo Tracks Splits Tracks to Mono

opened 10:45AM - 18 Oct 23 UTC

chinakov

bug P2 Tracks

### Bug description If the User has multiple tracks within a project, and the…n drags one of the clips within another track, it will sporadically split the tracks to mono, with no panning being applied. ### Steps to reproduce 1. Open Audacity 2. Create new Project 3. Create Stereo Track 1 4. Import or Generate Audio within Stereo Track 1 5. Create Stereo Track 2 6. Import or Generate Audio within Stereo Track 2 7. Grab the audio clip within Stereo Track 2 and 'drag and drop' it into Stereo Track 1 8. Do it a bunch of times, and observe different results ### Expected behavior No stereo tracks are split when clips are re-arranged from different tracks. ### Actual behavior The tracks are split sporadically if the User re-arranges clips to different Stereo tracks. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/assets/139755141/be1f9500-892f-4543-a73c-52317737bbe5 ### Audacity Version latest beta ### Operating system Windows ### Additional context _No response_

Peter

Nikal64 · November 7, 2023, 11:58pm

Same problem happening for me. All I tried doing was move Audio 1’s visible piece to Audio 2 and align it to zero. Pix attached…

jademan · November 8, 2023, 12:48pm

So this bug is reportedly fixed in 3.4.1 which is hoped to be released later today.

Davidcalder64 · November 11, 2023, 8:07am

Bug #5389 is still active in 3.4.1.

jademan · November 11, 2023, 12:29pm

This issue was reportedly fixed and tested. Please provide sufficient information for someone to duplicate your current issue.

Kschlewitz · November 24, 2023, 7:41pm

Def not fixed. I’m just moving audio up and down to different tracks as one does and it’s still happening!!! Argh!!! Running 3.4.2

jademan · November 24, 2023, 9:31pm

Please provide sufficient information for someone to duplicate your current issue.

waxcylinder · November 25, 2023, 11:48am

Muse are aware that this is still not fixed properly in 4.4.2 and apparently they are working on it.

Peter

Kschlewitz · November 26, 2023, 7:55pm

Audacity is completely unusable right now. I can’t go through and the import a ton of audio only to deal with this every time I sit down.

Basically if you move tracks up and down or if you copy and paste or really do anything all of a sudden it splits stereo into two mono tracks.

Kschlewitz · November 30, 2023, 5:31pm

Hate to ask this here but can anyone recommend other similar software programs like Audacity that I can use in the meantime? Not looking for super complicated programs (Adobe Audition, etc) and I know Auda like the back of my hand so this bug sucks…

system · December 4, 2023, 1:25pm

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