REPOSTING SAME CONTENT FOR ME --> "Problems with Macros in Audacity when processing multiple songs"

I don’t know why a perfectly accurate, but unresolved, topic gets closed automatically in only 30 days. I would have just bumped it again, but it’s closed. So I’m just copy/pasting the title and pasting the link here because it (and the associated video) describes exactly the same frustrating apparently random problem I’ve had for years. Can’t be coincidence.

If I’m doing something wrong, then just let me know. Otherwise, here it is:

I am experiencing errors when using Macros in Audacity when trying to process multiple songs consecutively.

I have tried with:

Different versions of Audacity (including some recent and some older),

Different versions of Windows,

Several computers,

And even on Linux.

The result is always the same: Audacity gives error during the process.

I also tried to send the error report from the same application, but that function does not respond correctly either.

This problem is not new; it has been happening since several versions ago.
I tried with different audio files (a few seconds and between 4 and 5 minutes), in various formats, and the error still occurs.

The strangest thing is that there is no clear pattern:

Sometimes I can process 100 songs without inconvenience,

Other times the error appears in every file,

And sometimes it crashes every 5, 10 or 15 songs.

On closer inspection, I noticed that many times the error occurs just when Audacity displays the message “Discarding Undo/Redo History”.

Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it?

I attach a video of my experience as it happens to me, since several years ago I exposed the same problem and I didn’t know how to express myself or make myself understood well.

https://youtu.be/I8koRmvNT4c

Audacity makes a protection copy of the whole show every time you perform an edit. That’s how it it performs Edit > Undo. So this is you running out of room on your machine.

I don’t think that’s worked right, ever.

I think you are violating the design philosophy. Audacity was made for one person recording a simple show or song, or reading an audiobook, not someone doing massive industrial-strength jobs.

That may also be why nobody responded to the original complaint. Can you point to all the other people having the same problem?

Koz

Not exactly, 40G of room on it. Even though sometimes it will say that C: drive is full. Another bug needing fixing? I think so.

Should be removed then. Another bug needing fixing? I think so.

Um, wat? Using the macro manager multiple file processing feature for what it’s actually designed and intended to do is not wrong. Nor is it “doing massive industrial-strength jobs.” Nor is it working correctly when even ONE file can cause it to fail.

What does that have to do with anything, or change the fact that at least TWO people have taken their time to post identical problem with this feature. That’s enough reports. One is enough reports for a failing feature. Unless there is some sort of minimum quota? Another bug needing fixing? I think so.

Anyone have a solution?

Bump… Any other ideas for this one?