I am trying to generate labels when using Audacity, and for some reason it outputs extra lines.
What I expected was to see something like
0.388556 1.450353 A
2.250547 3.797077 A
4.801168 6.424639 A
6.501581 7.694179 B
However, as I looked further, it had segments like below
11.202724 12.479958 A
12.841585 14.441974 A
14.726658 15.511465 B
\ 393.916809 393.916809
15.896174 16.542485 A
\ 393.916809 393.916809
17.173407 18.004379 A
\ 393.916809 393.916809
18.127485 19.243141 B
\ 393.916809 393.916809
19.581685 19.927923 A
\ 393.916809 393.916809
20.905084 21.751444 A
\ 393.916809 393.916809
21.828385 22.259259 B
\ 393.916809 393.916809
22.782464 24.690620 A
24.798338 28.953195 B
with a format of
\ {float} {float}
Do you know what are these and why are they appearing?
Thank you very much! Below is a screenshot of Audacity
Unfortunately it is not yet possible to turn this feature off. You just have to be aware of it and avoid creating “spectral labels” if you don’t want them.
I too have no idea why anyone would want or need spectral selections retained and noted in their labels.
What they are there for is so that if in future you select that labelled region (in Spectrogram view or Multi-view) by clicking on the label then not only does the temporal part of the selection get restored so does the spectral part - and just why anyone would want or need that is beyond me.
An note carefully if you are in spectrogram view and make a Spectral selection and then switch to Waveform view the spectral selection remains extant (and effectively hidden) as can be seen by switching back to Spectrogram view. And note too that this spectral selection range still persists (hidden) if you make a different temporal selection in Waveform view - do this and switch back to Spectrogram view and see what happens …
For my money it would be much better if when switching to Waveform view from Spectrogram or Multi-view where a spectral selection exists that the spectral part of the selection was cleared.
You’re right waxcylinder, I should have been more precise. Yes you can turn off spectral selections, but even then there may be an invisible frequency selection, and any labels that already have frequency selections will retain that additional data even when spectral selection is turned off.
Even worse, if you make a spectral selection at any time, and then turn off spectral selection, new labels will still have the frequency data added from the last used spectral selection.
