I am not in any way skilled at coding or anything like that. I use audacity in my music class to cut songs for my students and to avoid having to skip around in medleys and such.
I have an mp3 of a medley that I am trying to cut into individual songs to make the rehearsal process smoother because each class is singing a different song in the medley. When I open the file it plays and it allows me to select a region but it won’t let me do anything to edit except “Phaser” and “WahWah”. I can’t cut, trim, delete, split, etc. Everything shows up gray in the menus except those two.
No you’re not dumb - it’s us that are dumb for letting this issue linger for so many years now.
It catches many, many folk out (even me sometimes after 10 years intensive Audacity use) - at the very least we could have helped users by giving an error/warning message when they tried to used commands when in Pause mode - but I think the solution that will come with the upcoming 2.1.3 wil be much better, then Audacity will just ignore/override and unset the Pause and effect the command that ythe user wants to invoke
