Hi lads, thanks for a fabulous app, I really love your work.
I have a request after trying 1.3.14 though, as it contains what amounts to a step backwards for me in one area.
After completing a project I always export all my tracks as high-quality MP3s, to serve as “master tapes”. This way regardless of format changes to Audacity files, or directory structure changes on my computer, or whatever, I will always be able to load back in (“import audio”) and remix or upgrade if desired in the future.
It relies on all the tracks being of the same length (or at least starting from time 0) so when they’re loaded back in they are synchronized properly.
I loved mix and render for this, because it front-pads “punch-in” tracks perfectly, and takes out that mysterious pre-zero sound that fouls up the master track timing as well.
Then “export multiple” gives a lovely set of master tracks.
Until 1.3.14 :^(
“Mix and Render now preserves clip length by not rendering white space between time zero and first audio, and preserves audio before time zero. To retain silence before the audio starts, generate silence after render.”
This is a big downgrade for me!!!
If this has to be so, can we fix “export multiple” please, to front-pad the white space, and line everything up so that pre-zero audio doesn’t de-synchronize the tracks? Please? Otherwise I am stuck on 1.3.12…
Alternatively why not leave “mix and render” as it was?
Thanks for listening!
Cheers
Harry