Audacity Forum

Hi

I've encountered a situation where Audacity behaves weirdly and think it is a bug. I'm not sure where to report it to.

I found the bug after I had edited the file and went into File and Export to mp3 format and tried to save, I was unable to. The Export File Dialog box did not show the folders of the file system and when I tried to click on the Save Button, nothing happened.

I finally figured out what was causing it and how to fix it. It only occurs when you click in Zoom in button and scroll to the end of the file. When you try to export it the above bug happens but if you scroll back to the beginning, the Export File Dialog box works and you are able to export.

This bug happens irrespective if you edit the file or not. This can be replicated by loading a music file, resizing the audacity window so that you need to use the scrollbar to see the end of the file and then scroll to the end of the file. When you try to export the file, the bug appears.

I am currently using 1.3.4-beta on XUbuntu 8.04.

<<< think it is a bug.>>>

It might be. But the definition of a bug is something reliably bad that happens to 30 or 40 unrelated people.

In addition, all the Audacity programming might is currently pushing code around to bring 1.4.0 to general distribution. Can you write instruction books and wikis?

Koz

Here's one of the unrelated people.

I'm using Audacity 1.3.4-beta under Kubuntu and can confirm alsaf's observations. (Thanks for the workaround btw.)

Strange - I'm on Xubuntu 8.04 with Audacity 1.3.4 and I can't get it to happen. Are you using the version in the Ubuntu repository, building from source code, or using some other version.
I've found plenty of other bugs in the current Ubuntu repository version, but I can't reproduce this particular issue.

I'm having trouble exporting audio also. Exported files (using Export Multiple by track) are either empty or contain short repeated sequences of sound.
Moving the cursor to the beginning of the tracks prior to saving seems to solve the problem - thanks for the work-around.

(64-bit Vista, Audacity 1.3.5)

I use Audacity and sometimes I export audio too, but I haven’t noticed any bugs yet.

kadath wrote:Here's one of the unrelated people.

I'm using Audacity 1.3.4-beta under Kubuntu and can confirm alsaf's observations. (Thanks for the workaround btw.)

Kadath, does it mean you confirm the workaround works, too?

Strange, I have (almost) no idea what that could be. Perhaps only the scrollbar itself?

Would you try a different workaround-candidate, too? Try simply click here or there.
(Click in a track, or to the empty area around tracks, or move volume slider, alt-TAB to other app, or click >>| button.
Or perhaps, press RightArrow - do you observe another bug?)

happywoman50 wrote:I use Audacity and sometimes I export audio too, but I haven’t noticed any bugs yet.

Then you are happy women, indeed. Enjoy the beauties of Audacity.

I'm using 1.3.7 on Vista Home Premium. When I try to 'export multiple' Audacity always crashes and closes. This did not happen with previous versions. I've tried re-saving the file into another directory but that doesn't help. Any ideas?

123becky wrote:I'm using 1.3.7 on Vista Home Premium. When I try to 'export multiple' Audacity always crashes and closes. This did not happen with previous versions. I've tried re-saving the file into another directory but that doesn't help. Any ideas?

What format are you exporting as?