Crash when recording to project.

[tuoppi]

Ok. So, I had this problem that a project would crash every time at approximately 3.7 seconds. The project contained one 44.1 kHz mono track and another 44.1 kHz stereo track. Then I attempted to record a third one, and every time the crash happened after 3.7 seconds of recording.

Now I noticed that spilting the stereo track to two mono tracks is a solution. But regardless I wanted to report the issue.

[steve]

Any chance you're recording via USB?

[tuoppi]

Any chance you're recording via USB?

nope.

Also it seems the crash phenomenon is not completely gone necessarily. I'll have to do some more trials, but I got another one today.

[waxcylinder]

Looks more like Audacity is struggling with the mixture of mono and stereo tracks. Which is odd as I can mix both on my Audacity 1.3 and 1.2 - just tested both.

Tuoppi: you say both tracks are 44.1kHz - are they both the same bitrate too? This could possibly be the cause ...

WC

[tuoppi]

I'm not sure what "bitrate" refers to here, but they are both 32-bit float when imported. Does that answer the question?

[waxcylinder]

Yup tuoppi - that was the bitrate I was referring to - so unfortunately drawn a blank there, sorry ...

WC

[tuoppi]

Yup tuoppi - that was the bitrate I was referring to - so unfortunately drawn a blank there, sorry ...

WC

It's happening with mono tracks now too. It says: "unhandled exception".. something.. I can't get the rest because it shuts down so fast.

[tuoppi]

Hmm. Is it possible that the directory/index file (whatever it is called) is some how corrupt, because I now attempted to save the project by exporting each track to .wav and using another prog, but the files that Audacity exports are corrupt. It seems like the entire track was put through a cut-up machine à la William Burroughs...

[steve]

It may be worth resetting Audacity back to a "virgin" install state and checking if that cures the problem.

To do this, look in "Edit > Preferences > Directories" to see where the Audacity temporary folder is. Close Audacity and delete the temporary folder (it will be recreated when you restart Audacity, but don't restart Audacity just yet.)

Delete the configuration file:
For Windows and Audacity 1.3.4 this is usually:
Documents and Settings<user name>Application DataAudacityaudacity.cfg
(for other setups see http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... t_language )

Then go to the Audacity Plug-ins folder and move all the files to another location (this will remove any additional plug-in effects).

Now start Audacity and see if the problem is fixed - test it thoroughly.
If the problem is fixed, then you can start moving the plug-ins back into the plug-ins folder. If you move them a few at a time you may find that it is a plug-in that is causing the problem.