Label gets inserted when pasting audio with Sync-Lock-Tracks On

Hi,

If I have Sync-Lock Tracks turned on and I insert some audio into a track, the last label on the label track gets inserted into the corresponding spot in the label track. It only seems to happen if the inserted audio is inserted before the position of the last label.

If you follow these steps, you should be able to re-produce it:

  1. turn on sync lock tracks
  2. generate an tone track
  3. add a few labels, one at start, one at middle, and one at end.
  4. copy a section of the tone track and paste it into another spot in the track prior to the last label
  5. the last label is duplicated at that point where the audio was inserted
  6. turn sync lock tracks off
  7. try the insert again
  8. no label is inserted

Not sure if this is a known issue or not.

Mike

I’m not able to reproduce this with Audacity 2.4.1. Which version are you using?

Steve,

I’m using 2.4.1.

Here is my tone generated track with labels.

TrackBefore.JPG
I then selected 30 seconds between Label1 and Label2 and did Ctrl-C. Then I placed the cursor at 6Min and did a Ctrl-V. Below is what I ended up with.

TrackAfter.JPG
Not sure if that helps or not. I have “Type to Create a Label” turned on, but I also tested it with it turned off and got the same result. If I turn off Sync-Lock or if I paste after the last label, it does not happen.

Mike

I’ve tested with Audacity 2.4.1 on both Linux and Windows 10, and I’m not able to reproduce the issue.

You could try resetting Audacity Preferences to see if that “fixes” it. If it does, then reinstate your normal preferences one at a time to check if the problem returns.

The easiest way to reset Preferences is to reinstall Audacity and enable the option to reset preferences during the installation.

Steve,

I re-installed and added my preferences one-by-one. The problem showed up after I selected “Retain labels if selection snaps to a label” under Interface. It’s not that critical of a selection for me so I will uncheck it. But the description of that selection doesn’t seem to indicate that inserting audio would be impacted by that selection. So something is weird.

Thanks for your help.

Mike

OOH so it does - I tested this on W10 on 2.41
a) no label added at step 5 when using default settings of “Retain labels if selection snaps to a label” turned off
b) but when I turn that setting “on” - then ideed I get the spurious label.
So this is a bug in 2.4.1

However I also tested this on the latest alpha test build I have for the soon to be upcoming 2.4.2 - and somewhat mysteriously this bug has disappeared, I can’t reproduce it there. So presumably it got “fixed” by something else we fixed for 2.4.2.

On this basis I don’t think I need to log this in our bug-tracker (unless Steve thinks I should for trackability).

But many thanks for the bug report Mike - and many thanks for the clear steps to reproduce, that is very much appreciated :sunglasses:

Peter.

I also did some regression testing and this bug appears to have been around a long time.

It is certainly present in 2.1.0 - it’s not in 2.0.0 but in that version there was no preference for “Retain labels …”

I’m amazed that no-one has discovered this before - good catch Mike :sunglasses:

Peter.

That’s it. I can now reproduce the problem on Linux with Audacity 2.4.1.


Same here.
I’ll take a look and see if I can work out what fixed it.

It was fixed here: Bug 2408 - A region label gets split on inserting audio when Sync-loc… · audacity/audacity@6b1b9cc · GitHub

That was fixing a closely related bug: “Bug 2408 - A region label gets split on inserting audio when Sync-lock is turned on”

It’s actually the same bug (though slightly different symptoms) to the issue that you described here: Label Track Splits When Audio is Inserted

Thanks Peter and Steve!

Which was the bug that you found and reported earlier Mike :slight_smile:

Peter.

It was bug 2408

I have been using labels quite a bit as I edit audio that comes from 1:30 minute seminars and then send the audio to an audio reviewer - so labels help me organize my processing and are very useful for the reviewer to locate problem areas.