I just moved from Debian Gnome 12 running Audacity 3.2.4 to Debian Gnome 13 with Audacity 3.7.3. In the previous version I didn’t have the following problem and I suspect that Audacity is mismanaging its clipboard, but I would like to see if someone else can replicate the error.
If my system clipboard has a file of any type, except the ones with sound format, and I try to paste a copied track, or parts of a track, into another track or into another sound file, then I get this message:
Could not open file contacts.vcf: Incorrect filetype.
(Notice that contacts.vcf can be any other not sound format file copied in the clipboard)
Followed by another message:
Audacity did not recognize the type of the file contacts.vcf
I don’t think Audacity should be trying to paste what is in the system clipboard but what I just copied from the track that is open. If I have any piece of information in the system clipboard or if I have copied a file that is a sound format file, then the copy/paste of the track works fine. However, when the clipboard has a file and that file is not a sound file, I got those error messages and I am forced to copy a sound file or any piece of information in the clipboard. Then I can copy/paste the track, otherwise I can’t.
I think in my case Audacity is confusing its clipboard with the system clipboard. Can anybody replicate this? I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
I use Linux Mint 21.3 and Audacity 3.7.5 (AppImage). I tried to recreate what I understand you to be describing. I opened an existing project, jumped to the end and tried to paste a web page into the track. Naturally, I got the same message as you about wrong file type. Then copied a section of the open project and pasted that at the end successfully. I returned to the website and tried copying and pasting that again. What was pasted was the same bit of audio I selected before. I tried the same thing several times and always the audio selection was pasted at the end of the project. The only way to get a different result was for me to copy a different chunk of audio and paste that. My findings are that it works the way I expected it to.
I don’t know if that helps or not.
Thank you for your input and your time. That’s not exactly what I was trying to do. Given that Audacity has a separate clipboard different than the system clipboard, follow these steps:
Go to any PDF file (for example), right click and copy it. Now that file is in the system clipboard.
Run Audacity and open any audio file. Select a chunk of that file and copy it. Now that chunk is in the Audacity clipboard, which is different than the system clipboard.
Go and paste that chunk in a new track. When I do that, Audacity is trying to paste that PDF that I put in the system clipboard earlier, instead of the audio chunk that was in its own memory.
In my case, Audacity is trying to paste what I had in my system clipboard, which is not its business, and obviously it doesn’t recognize it as an audio format because it is a PDF, instead of pasting the audio chunk that is in its own clipboard.