Broken click track on 64-bit (*ubuntu 9.10 workaround?)

[steve]

Please confirm (or otherwise) the following.

You have deleted the audacity.cfg file and tried again with the same result (only one bar generated, spread over the full time).

You have tried this with the "Link" button in Audacity switched off.

[Naddiseo]

Ok, tried both, and still happening. I noticed something else though. The length of the bar that's generated is affected by the width of the audacity window.

[mhd720]

I can confirm the failure of the click track plugin to iterate. I'm using Audacity 1.3.5-beta on Ubuntu 8.10

The offset feature still works, but it never gives more than one measure. I tried deleting the audacity.cfg file, no luck. Changing the "beats per measure" allows more clicks, but the code limits it to a maximum of 20.

Has anyone tried downgrading to a stable version? if so, could they post a quick how-to for us newbies?

[steve]

There have been a number of issues with Nyquist. Nyquist is a programming language that is built into Audacity. "Click Track" is accomplished using Nyquist (it is a Nyquist script). The Audacity developers are aware of issues with Click Track and it has now been fixed.

The latest version (Audacity 1.3.8 alpha) has a completely updated version of Nyquist.

If your current 1.3 version is mostly working and you can live with any issues / bugs that exist, I would suggest sticking with it for now. The release of Audacity 1.3.8 beta is just round the corner and has lots of bug fixes.

I would not recommend downgrading to Audacity 1.2

The last estimate I read for the release of "Audacity 1.4 stable" was for September '09.

[personman]

Click track is still completely broken for me. Using 1.3.9 w/ Kubuntu Karmic 64-bit.

I generate a click track once and nothing happens, I generate a click track twice and get a segfault & crash.

[steve]

Did you upgrade from an earlier version of 'buntu or was it a fresh install?
Is Audacity 1.3.9 an update or a first install?

[personman]

I was following the development of ubuntu 9.10 up until release. Concerning audacity, I'm just using the ubuntu package, it may have been upgraded at some point along the way. I tried completely removing the audacity packages and deleting /home/user/.audacity*, and then reinstalling, but no luck.

If it's absolutely essential I could probably wipe my laptop and do a completely clean install to try it out, but it seems to me it's still a nyquist issue of some sort. Could be wrong of course.

Sorry to be a bother, but audacity has great potential and I'd really love to use it. Without a click track to synchronize to though, I'm kinda lost. If/when I manage to produce something with it, I'll be happy to plug it and recommend it, shout it from the rooftops and all that.

Thanks!

-Andy

[steve]

In the past I've had quite a few problems with Ubuntu builds of Audacity, although 1.3.7 worked reasonable well on Ubuntu 9.04 (32 bit). I've been following the development of Audacity, so I had to learn how to build it from source (very easy once you get the dependencies sorted out) and have found that building from source has produced much more stable versions (particularly the current 1.3.10 alpha version which I think is the best ever).

I've just tried out the standard Ubuntu 1.3.9 build on a test Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit) set-up and click track is working correctly.

Do other Nyquist effects work OK? (look in "/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins" - the .ny files are Nyquist plug-ins)
If other Nyquist effects work OK, could you copy the file "clicktrack.ny", zip it up and attach it to your reply.

[personman]

* Don't do this. *

Interesting... On a hunch I decided to see if I could get the 32-bit build of audacity to run on 64-bit linux w/ 32-bit emulation. After tracking down some of the 32 bit dependencies and getting them installed, (and possibly breaking my linux install in the process, though I'm not sure yet) I was able to run the 32-bit version of audacity, and the click track worked perfectly...

So I've come to the conclusion it is probably an issue specific to nyquist and 64-bit.

I might try manually compiling the 64-bit version just to see if it makes a difference. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again.

-Andy

Edit: Now I'll reinstall the 64-bit dependencies before my system notices they've gone missing. :/ Schwew.

Edit 2: Here are the packages I installed to get the 32-bit version working:

audacity_1.3.9-6_i386.deb
libflac++6_1.2.1-2build1_i386.deb
libsoundtouch1c2_1.3.1-2_i386.deb
libwxbase2.8-0_2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
libid3tag0_0.15.1b-10build1_i386.deb
libtwolame0_0.3.12-1_i386.deb
libwxgtk2.8-0_2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

As long as my system boots like this and nothing seems horribly broken, I may just leave it like this for now.

[personman]

Ok... If you need a system that actually boots...don't do what I did.

-Andy

Edit: If I can figure out how to make it install the 32-bit packages under lib32 instead of lib, I may be able to get this working...