Crossfading effect 'broken'

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello,

I am using Audacity for many years and I am very happy with it.
My current version is 2.4.2 on a Windows 10 Pro 64 bit system.

But since I’ve installed version 2.4.2, I have a problem when applying one of the effects.
It concerns the Crossfading effect. This causes an error message, telling me that I am using more than 1 track, while I am obviously using only 1 track at the time. In the past it worked perfectly normal.

I am guessing that something got corrupted, because in the last couple of versions before 2.4.2 (I forgot the exact versions), it did work as expected, but there was a peculiarity: I had 2 entries for each effect (so, each effect had a submenu of 2 items, each exactly the same).
When using the crossfading effect, it worked only if I chose the 1st entry. If I chose the 2nd entry, I got the same error message as I wrote above.
For every other effect, my 1st and 2nd effect entry both worked in identical way.

Now, since installing version 2.4.2, I have only 1 entry for each effect again (the ‘normal’ situation) as was also the case in earlier installed versions.
And so now, I am not able to use the crossfading effect anymore.

I already tried to uninstall and re-install Audacity, and I have also reset the effects, but his didn’t solve the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Arnoud

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There are two crossfading effects:

Crossfade Tracks: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/crossfade_tracks.html
Crossfade Clips: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/crossfade_clips.html

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Thanks for your reply Steve.

Yes I know, my problem concerns the crosfading within 1 track.
So, even when I have obviously only 1 track open in an Audacity window, and I try to crossfade, I get the message “more than 1 track selected” .
Just to as a comparison, if I then use the other type of crossfading on the same opened track, it says “only 1 track selected”.
That makes a lot of sense, but it is a strange contradiction.

Thanks,
Arnoud

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To be totally clear, are you referring to the “Crossfade Clips” effect?


There is no such message in the Crossfade Clips effect.
What exactly is the error message?

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Hi Steve, yes I am referring to the Crossfade Clips effect.
When I do that with only 1 (stereo) track opened (and selected), I get the message (translating from Dutch): “Error. Invalid selection. More than 2 audioclips selected”.
And to repeat what I wrote in my earlier message, before, in earlier Audacity versions, it did work as expected.

If I use Crossfading Tracksx(in the exact same situations as above), than I get the message: “Error. Select 2 or more tracks to crossfade”. (Which you would expect, when trying to crossfading 2 clips within 1 track).

Best,
Arnoud

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UPDATE: I decided to do a clean re-install and chose English interface instead of Dutch, and now the Clossfade clips works again as it should.
Strange right?

Best,
Arnoud

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I just changed my language on Audacity 2.4.2 to “Deutsch” and received no error with Crossfade Clips. (Windows 10)

Same with “Nederlands”.