Macro Help - "Algorithm not effective on this audio. Nothing changed."

I have a macro that selects 30 second segments, and applies the “click filter” effect to each segment. It works until it finds a segment with no clicks to fix, then shows the “nothing changed” pop-up, and reverts all prior found clicks to the original, ultimately making no changes.

Anyone know of a way to work around this?

The pop-up cannot be turned off, but you could work around the problem by creating a second track, the same length as the track that you want to process, and fill it with continuous crackles (details below).

Then modify your macro to select both tracks. This will give Click Removal something to chew on, and prevent the pop-up from appearing.

When the processing is completed, delete the crackle track.

Creating a track full of crackles:

Running this code in the Nyquist Prompt will fill the selection with crackles:

(setf n (noise))
(dotimes (i 10 n)
  (setf n (mult n (noise))))
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Nice workaround - thanks!