I keep getting errors and unexpected crashes with the 3.6 version (newest one this year) of Audacity. The latest error is 0xc0000005. Also, the audio levels don’t seem to be accurate. When I try to peak at -12 to -6 and take the recorded audio to a program like Adobe Audition, it is super hot and over-modulated. Not sure what is happening. Playback also seems to be muddy and I have to boost my speaker levels to better hear what I have recorded.
Is there a fix or is there a place where I can download a previous version of Audacity? I did not have these issues before. Thank you.
Hi Koz, I downloaded an earlier version of Audacity after uninstalling the latest version. I am wondering if I have artifacts from the newest version that came out in July. Audacity decided to give me huge spaces in between cuts, didn’t want to delete audio and kept giving me a popup screen that said there was not enough room to paste audio. Then, when I tried to export a select track of a mixdown I did, but it would only allow me to export the entire project, not the current selection I highlighted of the mixdown. I will be deleting the newest upload of that earlier version from my computer. Audacity is getting audacious and not in a good way.
If you tried production on a version that used to work and now it doesn’t, there can be holdover effects from 3.6x.
After you installed the rescue version, did you Tools > Reset Configuration? If you do that, you can usually watch the timeline display layout shift around. And again, if there still are odd artifacts, there are more serious patches you can do.
And again, again, we’re expecting 3.6.0 and 3.6.1 to be brittle. Looking for 3.6.2.
That could be a different problem. It’s not room on the timeline, but room in memory or on the drive. We will remember that Audacity makes a copy of The Whole Show every time you do any changes or edits. That can rip through your memory and drive space in a hurry.
For example, if you’re working on an hour show and you make a tiny change to the space between two words, you now have two hours worth of data on your machine. And that will keep getting worse as you edit. That’s how Audacity does Edit > UNDO.
You may have noticed that earlier Audacity versions may not open Projects from later versions. This can put you in a tough spot of shiny new Audacity versions keep crashing and earlier, classic, mature versions won’t open your Projects.
I wrote a recommended process for audiobook production reading. It features Exporting a WAV (Microsoft) protection file immediately after you get done reading, and Exporting a Final Edit Master (WAV) file just before you export the MP3 for submission. The process doesn’t mention Audacity Projects.
Found it. Most explanations go into crazy, extensive detail because of the crazy, extensive number of things that can go wrong. This is the process after you get good and you know where all the pitfalls are. Production doesn’t have to be a career move which is what the longer explanations suggest.
It doesn’t say so, but Export your ACX MP3 at the end if ACX audiobook publication is your goal.
You can open and change your Final Edit Master WAV, but you can’t ever change your submission MP3.
Version 1.0 Read your chapter in a quiet, echo-free room.
Stop.
File > Export the work, errors and all, as a WAV (Microsoft) protection file.
Edit the work to get rid of word-o’s, stumbles, stutters, tongue ticks, and other errors. No effects.
Lots of discussion is beyond my level. I want to add that dont see the Recording Level on toolbar. It is checked on Toolbar menu- and when I uncheck it I consistently get the 00005 crash. I can work around it but want to make sure it is identified in bugs list!
Hi Koz, I did not do Tools > Reset Configuration. I appreciate all of this information. That may have been part of the problem. I did not realize that Audacity loads up a hard drive when changes or edits are done. I always export my files as a .Wav and an Mp3 or Mp2 depending on the client’s requirements. The previous version I was using before I downloaded 3.6x did not have the issues I am now dealing with. Some of those continued even with an earlier version but I was trying to edit a file I had edited in 3.6. Thank you for all of this detail. I do appreciate it.
Just getting it in. It appears to fix my problem with recording tool bar slider! Thanks! At the moment my OpenVino is set for 3.6.1 so it doesnt work with new release. The latest mod on the web site is still 3.6.1. I can keep watching for updates…unless I am missing something! Curiously I do not get the Failed to Load message I saw on previous releases so I may be doing something wrong! Thanks!!!
Hi LWinterberg,
Thank you for that information. I was wondering why Audacity 3.6.2 still tells me I don’t have enough room to paste audio in a section when it never did that before. It is massively frustrating. Is there a way to remove old artifacts from the latest update that may be plaguing me? I am wondering if that is what is going on. I am using Windows 10 as an O/S.
I just realized I had 3.61 as the latest version I installed. I went back too far. I have just now downloaded 3.6.2 and hope that will fix the pasting issues.
No, I just tried to paste in a section and it did not. Sigh. I will need to create a whole new file as I have before. I know when I uninstalled 3.6.1, there was a message that said not everything can be removed. Not sure what artifacts are giving me grief from the previous version.
