It Will Not Die!!

[kozikowski]

Maybe I can borrow a pitchfork and a flaming torch from the next door neighbor. She's a Hollywood set decorator and likely to have such things.

I needed the noise reduction tools only available in Audacity 1.3, so I pulled 1.3.5b down and installed it on my OS-X 10.4.11 12" PowerBook G4. I've been messing with it on and off all day and I decided to clear the decks and work on something else.

[Quit Audacity] is gray. The process really isn't there any more because Apple-Q fails, too. The program is clearly running because I can apply filters to my 18-1/2 second live capture sound clip and they work. My Audacity 1.2.6 is not running and hasn't been since I started 1.3.

I can see Audacity running in Terminal-Top and I can kill it from the command line, but really, that's not very graceful, is it?

???

Koz

[kozikowski]

I have two grays, "Services" and "Quit Audacity."

The program is working perfectly. Play, Play At Speed, Stop, Magnify, Edit, and the filters all seem to work.

Terminal-Top tells me that there is only one Audacity process running.

I may have another oddity. I tried exporting a selection to WAV and the tag dialog came up. Correct me, but WAV format doesn't support tags. I don't have lame installed, so I'm not expecting MP3 to work.

This is getting seriously Alfred Hitchcock.

Koz

[kozikowski]

I think I know the spell--or a spell.

Close the program with the little red ball upper left of the work window. Then Audacity > Close Audacity becomes active.

Holdover Windows code?

Koz

[kats_corner]

Eek!

That combination of symptoms almost starts to sound like it's taken on daemon attributes, and tried to divorce itself from the control terminal.... For a gui-based app, that's very Hitchcock-like indeed!

Sounds like I might want to peruse the source code I took the trouble to download....

And you're right, WAV doesn't support tags (markers); which is one of the plethora of reasons I tend to save stereo mixes in AIFF, which does.

[kozikowski]

<<<I tend to save stereo mixes in AIFF>>>

Thus assuring that none of the Windows machines will be able to open them. That's the down side. AIFF is lovely, but it only opens on 12% of computers out there.

<<<it's taken on daemon attributes>>>

I wonder how many other people have this problem. It's pretty serious and was a show-stopper until I stumbled on the work-around.

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

Koz, can you try our latest build:
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... alpha_.dmg

If the Quit Audacity command is still greyed let me know and I'll escalate it. Where is the Services menu item, under "Audacity"? That must be a Mac-specific menu, what does it do?

WAV format does support LIST INFO tags in the RIFF chunk:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exi ... .html#Info

and 1.3.5 supports these:

Artist (IART)
Title (INAM)
Year (Date Created) (ICRD)
Comments (ICMT)
Copyright (ICOP)
Software (ISFT)


Gale

[kozikowski]

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"/Audacity/Services"
--Chinese Text Converter
--Disk Utility
--Finder
--Font Book
--Grab
--Mail
--Script Editor
--Speech
--Textedit
--------Plus many grayed out items...
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<<<try our latest build:>>>

Alpha Code! Ewwwwwwwww!

This from the person who wouldn't run 1.3 forever.

Not at work. This will have to wait until I get home.

Koz
(UNIX version kz)