Hi.
I’m using Audacity 2.4.2 build from source (Using Steve guide) on Ubuntu Studio 20.04
I found a bug that crash audacity, but before crashing is making a bug report folder.
If you try to use the Change Pitch effect or the Change Tempo with the High Quality Stretching option enabled, the program crash.
I saved the bug report folder but I don’t know what to do with it.
It’s a known bug, so you don’t need to do anything with the bug report (it has been fixed for the next release).
The crash only occurs with stereo tracks, so as a workaround you could split the track (to left and right “mono” tracks) before applying the effect.
(See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/splitting_and_joining_stereo_tracks.html)
The bug also affects the “Sliding Stretch” effect.
To fix the bug, here’s a patch: changepitch.patch (3.44 KB)
To apply the patch, put the patch in the root of your source code folder, then apply the patch with:
patch -p 1 < changepitch.patch
Then delete your build folder, and rebuild Audacity as before.
/usr/local/bin/audacity is the actual executable. /usr/local/share/audacity/ contains the manual (if installed), and other parts of the Audacity bundle. ~/.audacity-data and ~/.audacity-files are your user settings.
Thanks again for all your help!
I’m that kind of person who believes that leaving some bits here, some bytes there, will eventually, make my system run slower
Anyway I don’t have any plans to uninstall Audacity. I’m using it a lot.