I have been using Audacity for years. Great program. But suddenly (just updated) when I want to export audio into separate track files based on labels it won’t use my updated Metadata I have saved. It seems to remember metadata I used years ago somehow and uses that starting at the second file exported. I also seem unable to define a starting track number. Seems I can only edit the metadata under the first label?
Has something changed in how that works now…It has been awhile but I thought I could create and edit a metadata XML tag, leaving track name and number empty and the export would fill those in for the file properties when created?
Update: I might have solved this. I had to set the metadata as the Default for it to use it for all the exported files based on labels even I though I edited the Metadata information for the project. I would only apply the metadata set for the first file exported only, then revert to the default. They default did place the ‘Album Artist’ in Metadata properties into the file ‘Contributing Artist’ however and left the Artist Field blank? I assume both of these are probably bugs. But at least knowing this it saves you having to edit all file properties manually to fix. Now only one if you care.