Errors exporting audio in 3.2.2

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Since updating Audacity on two different Mac, I cannot export to mp3, wav, or ogg. The file has two tracks. One with speaking and the other with music. When I remove the second track, it works. I removed the audio in the second track and left the blank track, and it exports, but as soon as I add something to that second track, I have the problem.

On the newer Mac (Ventura 13.0.1) it begins the export process, creates a file, and then freezes up and I have to Force Quit.

I get the error:

Translated Report (Full Report Below)

Process: Audacity [7550]
Path: /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity
Identifier: Audacity
Version: ???
Code Type: X86-64 (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2022-12-19 08:17:45.2189 -0500
OS Version: macOS 13.0.1 (22A400)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: B87DCC56-B901-95BA-FF3E-14003727A985

Sleep/Wake UUID: 26789D44-7F92-4CBF-AFDA-78698DD3CD2E

Time Awake Since Boot: 58000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 317 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x4081c7f800000000 → 0xffffc7f800000000 (possible pointer authentication failure)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x4081c7f800000000

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11
Terminating Process: exc handler [7550]

VM Region Info: 0xffffc7f800000000 is not in any region. Bytes after previous region: 18446541743946006529
REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL
mapped file 7ffc8ac38000-7ffc91af0000 [110.7M] r-x/r-x SM=COW …t_id=8df01c67
—>
UNUSED SPACE AT END

On the older Mac (Monterey 12.6.1) it goes further in the process and then crashes shut.

I get the following error.

Crash reason: EXC_BAD_ACCESS / KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS
Crash address: 0xffffffff9a33f000
Process uptime: 216 seconds

I created a new project, copied the audio clips over to it and tried again, and get the same errors.
What do you suggest?

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Are the tracks mono or stereo? Are you using envelopes?

Create a project with just the music track and try to export. What happens? (Is the problem with the music track?)

Create a project with two copies of the speaking track and try to export. What happens? (Is the problem with having two tracks?)

Create a project with two generated tracks (chirp, tone, noise, whatever) in the same mono/stereo configuration as the problem project and try to export. What happens?

– Bill

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I found a work-around. The music track contains audio clips at the beginning and the end of the track with a space in the middle. When I select both clips and “join” them, they become one clip. In this format I am able to export. Clearly there must be a change in the software that is causing this glitch, as I have never had to do this before.

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I can’t reproduce this. I created a project with a mono track and a stereo track. The stereo track has clips at the beginning and end. No problem exporting.
– Bill