I’m running Audacity 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 22.04 (via Flatpak, if it makes a difference), and I noticed that the the Export2 macro was creating a blank file. If I tried to export the file using the standard pull-down menu, it worked file:
However, I have the following macro:
When I ran it on my file, what I got is this:
What I ultimately figured out was that I had to have the audio I wanted to export selected/highlighted first. Is this by design? I expected Export2 to work the same way as the File → Export → Export Audio… command, which does not require any selection of the audio. I could see a lot of people struggling to figure out this solution.
Sometimes you may want to export everything, and sometimes you may want to export a selection. There “could” have been separate commands for “ExportAll2” and “ExportSelection2”, but there’s hardly any need when you can export all by simply selecting all before Export2:
Imo, the “problem” is that the documentation is rather sparse.
However, the new development team will be discontinuing the manual at some point, and replacing it with a new support channel: https://support.audacityteam.org/
