Audacity 3.3.1 / Windows 10 Version 22H2
I had a problem recently with the latest version of Audacity.
On Playback it kept freezing at the same point.
At first I thought that it was maybe a bad part of my SSD.
In explanation:
The way I record using TC Helicon Perform V into a Focusrite 2I2
It to do 3 takes of each verse with the TC-Helicon set to Reverb.
Then I do another 3 takes TC-Helicon set to Reverb & Double.
What I then do is to get the best matching clips between Reverb & Reverb Double for each line of the verse and copy them onto separate tracks for Verse Reverb & VerseReverb Doubled.
This results in many “clips” being created.
When trying to work out what was going on, I did Alt/Ctrl/Delete
to bring up the Task Manager.
Audacity although frozen showed Power Usage as Very High and I then
highlighted Audacity and clicked on End task.
I tried re-installing an older version of Audacity, but it still froze at the same point.
I was able to export a Wav file for each of the tracks and imported them into a new project. This new project still froze at the same point.
I’d also scanned the disk for errors, but it was O.K
I went back to the latest version of Audacity.
Eventually, I fixed the problem by highlighting the track and going into: Edit ; Audio Clips ; Join. So the many clip names became 1 clip name and everything now works properly.
I assume that there is a limit on the amount of clips / clip names that you can have which caused this problem.