Plot Spectrum... bug?

[Glen Gollihue]

Try this:

1. Run audacity.
2. Open any file.
3. Run a second audacity.
4. Open any file in the second audacity.
5. Close either audacity.
6. Try to Plot Spectrum...

When I do this, nothing happens.

I am running on Windows XP sp3, and audacity 1.3.6
Program build date: Oct 24 2008.

It appears that plot spectrum... can not handle different instances of audacity.

BTW - Love the software. I can't thank everyone enough for writing and releasing it. I currently master three church services a week with it.

[kozikowski]

<<<3. Run a second audacity.>>>

There are supposed to be software locks to prevent you from doing that. However, you can certainly open up multiple work or project windows. File > New. Is that what you mean?

Koz

[Glen Gollihue]

Yes. I did a "File > New" to start another instance.

BTW - File > New and double clicking the audacity shortcut looks exactly the same on my machine. I can double click many times to get many instances. The software doesn't complain at all.

[Glen Gollihue]

Ooops. In my first post, step 5 should read Close the FIRST instance of audacity.

[kozikowski]

That doesn't happen in Mac land. All windows can run spectrum analysis no matter how many there are or how many are closed. 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7.

Do you know anybody else in Windows Land that you can try this on?

A "Bug" is a very specific set of circumstances. A mistake causing evil software behavior and reproducible on multiple different machines by many users.

It's that last part that usually throws people. There's no such thing as a bug on just your machine. So now we're looking for the other 300 people with the same problem.

There is one particularly evil variation where an actual bug skirts the definition. That is if the failure only show up every tenth or so time you run the software. That's where the forums shine. They tend to distill the users with similar problems. For example, it took us months to find that about ten percent of users will never get their external FireWire hard drive to capture video. The combination is not unconditionally stable for everybody.

Closer to home, we're tracking an MP3 problem that wanders through the users like a miasma.

Koz

[kozikowski]

<<<Ooops. In my first post, step 5 should read Close the FIRST instance of audacity.>>>

Still no. I didn't try all the revision levels, but I will a bit later.

Koz

[Glen Gollihue]

Yea. I see the MP3 problem is a pain. No worries tho. I'm not requesting a fix. I can use this version just fine. I just thought you would like to know this little quirk.

Thanks for the quick respose

[TSMusic]

I just tried it here. 1.3.6 XP SP2 and it worked fine. Could not duplicate it.

Tony

[Muzak]

I can confirm this bug for most of the 1.3 beta line, it's always occurred for me under Windows 2k and XP.

With 1.3.7, open the first file, spectrum displays fine. Use File -> New or double click the icon to open a second instance with a new file and do a spectrum, it works fine, close the spectrum window (not Audacity), go back to the first iteration of Audacity and try to do a spectrum, it switches to the second instance and shows the spectrum for the second file. Closing either instance solves the issue.

[johnmelodeon]

I can confirm this bug. I'm running Audacity 1.3.7 on Windows XP home SP3;
however I also find that the spectrum analysis will work initially; but even with only a single instance running, after a period of editing (eg make new track, copy & paste, low pass filter, time shift, invert, mix tracks to mono) the spectrum analysis does not run.