3.7.2 Bug: Truncate silences creates silence sized breaks in track

3.7.2 broke “truncate silences”. You need to pull the update until it is fixed, I’ve now spent over an hour trying to do a 2 minute job.

What used to happen in 3.7.1 and the previous versions: I would use “truncate silences” on my 2 hour track, it would end up being 1 hour and 56 minutes or so, ready to be uploaded. Now it’s still a 2 hour track, with loads of breaks the length of the removed silences between the different parts that audacity has created in my track, and I cannot figure out how to remove those breaks automatically. The only solutions that I found for this problem on previous versions when searching the net was to use truncates silences…

I’ve reverted to 3.7.1 now. By the way, I couldn’t find a link to Fosshub for the old versions in the support section or anywhere else on audacity.org, I had to search the net.

@aloyse6

Yes, there appears to be a regression bug with Truncate Silence, but only when you have more that one silent part in your selected audio.

I will log this bug on Muse’s GitHub issues log.

Peter

Logged as:

This looks to be an unintended consequence of the new behaviors that Muse introduced for 3.7.2 whereby edits like delete, paste, and is this case Truncate silence (which is effectively a set of implied deletes) cause the audio to be clip-split

Peter

It’s also affecting “Generate Silence” at the beginning of a track. Like it’s not starting from the home position.

Thank you,

In my case, it’s a two hour Aircheck recording of a community radio show by a rather inexperienced DJ (me), there were about 40 silences to remove, some caused by the DJ switching the microphone on rather late, not getting the music to play after finishing speaking or by playing several tracks from a CD in a row.

I am using 3.7.3 and when I truncate silence, I am still seeing the track remain at the same length and just full of gaps. Truncate silence is still not working for me.

@Moffnathan

Nathan, I just tested on W10 with 3.7.3 and I cannot reproduce this, it works fine for me.

Peter.

I have also tested on W11 with 3.7.3 and it works fine for me too.

I did have to do a reinstall of 3.7.3 and reboot my machine and I was able to get the truncate silence to work as it should.

Thank you for the responses.

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