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All the other effects seem to work but when using the pitch shift it crashes audacity on linux opensuse 11.4. Any ideas how to fix this? Maybe I can somehow install the stable release of audacity instead of the beta.

Also, when I import a song into audacity when I select the file and then pitch shift the hz reading is way off. It says like 319 instead of 440hz.

Linux generally packages a recent 1.3.x version, mostly because it is considerably more stable on Linux than the old 1.2.6 version.

What's the exact version of Audacity that you have (look in "Help menu > About Audacity")
Which exact "pitch shift" effect are you using (there is no effect in Audacity called "pitch shift", but there are a couple of effects with similar names).

My version of audacity is 1.3.13 beta

I can import the mp3, select>all, then go to effects>change pitch, enter the amount of change in hz, and when I hit ok the program just closes.

I'm not seeing a crash here.
Did you build Audacity from the source code?
Which exact version of Audacity are you using? (For example, "Audacity ® 1.3.14-alpha-Apr 21 2011 (Unicode), Release Build" - You may need to look at the bottom of the "Build Information" tab for the build date)
If you launch Audacity from a terminal window, do you see an error message in the terminal window after the crash?

How do I repeat exactly what you are doing? How long does the track need to be? Mono or stereo? Sample rate? What settings do I enter in the Change speed effect?

Have you tried this with other mp3 files? Does it happen with all files or just that one?

How much ram and free disk space do you have?

Using Audacity 1.3.13 beta (unicode) running on opensuse 11.4. Bottom of build tab just says release build no date or anything.

To duplicate, import an mp3, edit>select>all, effect>change pitch, -8hz change, ok. Program just closes. Happens with any mp3 I try.

I have plenty of storage but only 512mb ram

Opened from terminal after crash I get:

ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib setup.c:344:(snd_config_get_ctl_elem_value) bad value type
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Expression 'stream->capture.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3857
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1035
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1192
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1433
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2105
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3875
Expression '*idev = open( idevName, flags )' failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 811
Expression 'OpenDevices( idevName, odevName, &idev, &odev )' failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 857
Expression 'PaOssStream_Initialize( stream, inputParameters, outputParameters, streamCallback, userData, streamFlags, ossHostApi )' failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 1234

Hoss wrote:effect>change pitch, -8hz change,

I don't see where you're putting in "-8hz"