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So everytime I try to change some values, for example if I want to change the tempo of a clip, I would select everything and then go to the Change Tempo option and use the slider. No matter what I set it to, I always get an error popping up "Validation error. Value not in range: -99,000 to 3000,000." Nothing ever works, not even if I type a value myself. Now I dont know if this is an issue with Windows 10 or the version of Audacity I'm using (I've tried the official and the nightly versions). Even a Google search gave me nothing about validation errors. This is all from a fresh installation by the way, so no other settings in Audacity were changed.

I would select everything

How? You can select an entire song by clicking Stop, and then clicking just above the MUTE button on the left. None of the settings work from Pause. You have to be in Stop.

Koz

Yep, I've tried that too, I press stop and then options become available but still the same.

Gregoras wrote:"Validation error. Value not in range: -99,000 to 3000,000."

What language is Audacity using? When set to English, the error message shows (dot as decimal separator):
Validation error.
Value not in range: -99,000 to 3000.000

Gregoras wrote:No matter what I set it to

please give a step by step example: What track(s) are you selecting, which box are you typing into. exactly what are you typing, what / where are you clicking?

Ok, so I open Audacity, load my .mp3 file, and without hitting play or anything, I go to the Effect menu and go to Change Tempo...

It then has a default value of 0,000. It is already highlighted. Now, when I move the slider down to say, -2,000 I would normally hit Preview. For this particular effect, the ranges seem to be between -99,000 and 3000,000, that's the error that pops up. I then hit Ok to close the popup.

These are the default settings for the Change Tempo effect in Audacity 2.1.2 with English as the default language. There is not a comma to be seen:



It would appear that you are NOT using Audacity 2.1.2 with English as the default language on your computer. What are you using?

Well here is my screen. Note that I have also checked the language of it under settings and everything is the standard English language

Look, basically everything is stock, downloaded straight from the official website. Nothing has been messed around with. I don't get what the cause of this is, and so far, no one else seems to either. If this was a well known issue, I'm sure people would quickly make a correction and know what to do straight away, but I get that it needs to be narrowed down first. That's why I questioned if it was a Windows 10 issue, as I have had Audacity on other versions of Windows in the past, and all have been working great. There have been suggestions of installing additional plugins for Windows 10 but I assume this has nothing to do with the problem at hand, they seem to be about codecs etc.

For a standard English language computer the decimal separator should be a dot.
Audacity decides whether to use a dot or a comma based on the system settings of the computer.
Change Tempo on your machine is showing a comma as the decimal separator.

This article shows how to check the number format: http://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/cus ... ws-10.html
Is your system configured to use a dot as the decimal separator?

Do you see a comma or a dot as the decimal separator in other effect? (example, the "Amplify" effect)

Does British English or other special purpose English use the comma? Change to British English and see what happens.

Have you done a reinstall using a fresh download and the Reset Preferences option checked? Nowhere in the thread did you explicitly say that.

Koz