Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

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Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by takm » Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:44 am

I'm using audacity 1.38 with windows XP 32bits. Everytime i use generate silence it does zoom out, also if i have 2 tracks, and the second is in the middle (lets say at 10 seconds it starts) with no audio data before, if i use generate silence at the beggining of the track (at 10 to 10,2 seconds) the rest of it (from 10,2 to end) goes to the start (time 0 seconds) and becomes messed.

Don't know if it is suposed to be this way, but sure isn't pleasing.

Thank You for any help!

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by waxcylinder » Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:02 am

This is a known bug - there are other threads about this on the forum.

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by apinto » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:43 pm

the zoom problem is already fixed in the CVS repository and will be included in the next release.

André.

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by kozikowski » Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:44 pm

But until then, a handy work-around after you insert silence is Control or Apple-E to zoom into the selection (the silence) and Control or Apple-3 to zoom back out just a little bit. This almost always puts you where you think you should have been in the first place.

For one of the other problems, make sure Snap is turned off in the lower part of the edit window.

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by waxcylinder » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:10 am

apinto wrote:the zoom problem is already fixed in the CVS repository and will be included in the next release.
Great news- thanks for that André

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by takm » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:05 am

This is what happens:

Before using generate silence:
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After using generate silence:
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What i'm doing wrong???

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by kozikowski » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:35 pm

Are all your clips at the same sound standard? Audacity isn't a very good standards converter. If you try adding 24-bit silence at the end of a 16 bit clip, odd things may happen.

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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by steve » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:10 pm

takm wrote:This is what happens:
That should not happen.

I've occasionally noticed similar behaviour but have been unable to find a way to reliably reproduce the effect.

If you can give a step-by-step method that will enable the developers to reproduce the problem then they should be able to fix it quite quickly. It is extremely difficult for them to fix something that they can not reproduce.
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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by takm » Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:31 am

Just found another problem, when i use the screen shot tool. the "device toolbar" disapears.

Until now i could always reproduce the same results after using "slpit new".

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Using split new
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Using generate silence
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Re: Audacity 1.38, issues after using generate silence.

Post by steve » Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:17 am

I can't reproduce the issue on Audacity 1.3.9

Try the latest available version of Audacity for your operating system. You can download it here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... s_Binaries
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