unable to export multiple stems in audacity 4 beta 2. I spent over 4 hours recording only to find out I can only export as “export full project audio” “export selected audio” or “export audio in loop region”… please help I’ve reached deadline for a song submission and this completely screwed me over…
Audacity 4 is NOT a production environment , it is a Beta test bed - you should not be using it for production work.
Muse (the owners of Audacity) provide it so that experienced users of Audacity can test it out and report any issues that they find.
Peter
I understand that but it would have been great to know that a simple function like exporting multiple tracks is not available. with all the other added new features available in this patch you would never assume that that simple function would be absent. it’s infuriating.
I agree that “beta” versions are usually “feature complete” (or nearly so), but currently there’s quite a few features missing from Audacity 4.0 beta. It might be better to think of the current Audacity 4 as an “alpha” version.
I think Muse did publish a little list of stuff that they knew that was not in AU4 that was in AU3 nbd earlier, but it was not necessarily complete and exhaustive.
The problem for you is that the database structure has changed in AU4 because it dues some new things that AU3 and earlier never did - so there is no backwards compatibility i.e a project made in AU4 cannot be opened in AU3.
So here’s a little workaround for you (assuming that your project is complete and ready for export).
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first, and most importantly, make a backup copy of your project (just in case things go wrong}
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Open the project and delete everything except the Track/stem/song that you want to export
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make the Export
4.1) Either use multiple Ctrl-Z to get back to the full project - OR
4.2) Exit the project making absolutely sure NOT to save the changes when that is offered
- Repeat for each Track/stem/song in turn
A bit tedious - but I hope that helps,
Peter