Gale Andrews wrote:DickN wrote:Another (probably unrelated) observation: 2.1.2 (RC1, RC2 and this one) often takes a very long time to present the History window and to terminate. When terminating, the Audacity window's contents are cleared fairly promptly but the skeleton of the window remains sometimes for minutes before the program finishes shutting down, even if the project was recently saved.
I don't know what your usual workflow is. How many Undo levels do you have? Are the levels of large data size, or small, like adding a label?
I typically accumulate hundreds of undo levels before I discard any, which I usually do only if I'm running low on free disk space. Currently I'm not (free >14 GB). Most of the levels are 0 bytes, for labels. Those that aren't may add up to a significant percentage of the length of the project. I make the 1st label track, RTags, while recording on the laptop. I seldom edit on the laptop (screen's too small). My first step in editing is to make another label track, Sections, and label each section. This is the prototype for all label tracks for export. It also contains a tag for each section that will be converted to Mono, so the file names contain the tags and I can convert them later. A third label track, TTags, is for documenting every effect I've applied, and save the pertinent data for every region where I've checked the noise spectrum. The first thing I do before operating on any audio is High-pass filter the whole recording (20 Hz, 6 dB/octave), so if I'm in the first editing session for the project that step will always be full length. There is always one very long portion that will be Mono, so I convert that one before doing any filtering on it. I generally apply filters to the rest of the sections while they're still in the Stereo track because some filters cross section boundaries. The finished project has 1 Stereo track and 1 Mono track, plus TTags, RTags, Sections, and another label track for each export.
Gale Andrews wrote:Does discarding maximum levels before quitting Audacity make the History window disappear more quickly?
I assume you meant the Audacity window "skeleton", as I called it. Guess I'll have to try it and see. I did notice that that long delay to display the History window only happens once. After that, it displays reasonably promptly. Similar behavior the first time I create a label.
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Tried it... There were 190 undo levels. It took about 30 sec to undo 180 levels and then about 8 sec to close Audacity. So my answer is Yes, the window "skeleton" disappears quite a lot faster after undoing history.
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This reminds me - Not long ago, History showed the gain value for Amplify. I kinda miss that. I apply Fade by dB after I finish all the level adjustments, so it's rather useful to have the correct gain values logged in my TTags. Unfortunately, I sometimes forget what the gain was by the time Amplify finishes on a long section, and I've gotten used to checking History to find it. I think Amplify is the only effect that can't tell me the last parameter(s) I used.
- DickN
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