I have this problem with Audacity that shows up when using a third party software
I’m using in Mp3tag [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html] an option located in
Tools > Option > Tools
defined as
Name: Audacity [not important]
Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\audacity.exe
Parameter: “%_PATH%”
I gives me the ability to execute via keyboard shortcut [or right click sub-menu] an order to send selected files from Mp3tag right to the Audacity [for the purpose of seeing it in spectrogram]. And this works perfectly for one file: Audacity opens it in a maximized window. This also works in the same way for two files: each is opened in a separate instance in maximized form. But when I select three or more files and execute this tool in Mp3tag, then one file is opened correctly but the second one, the third one and so on are opened all together in only one [second] instance; and thus showing up not in a full view but in a squeezed vertically form
If this wasn’t a bug, also only one instance should be opened for two files, dividing place inside it for those two. But instead Audacity chooses to treat one as one, two as two but three or four or five as two. Also when the loading process of more than two files is taking place I can see: first instance being opened with one file maximized > second instance being opened with second file maximized > third file being opened in second instance which now has room inside it split between he second and third file
Also when there are more files that take more space on a hard drive [and so the loading process is prolonged], sometimes I get for example a mix up like
first instance - with 1 file
second instance - with 3 files
third instance - with 2 files
And this pretty much unforeseeable behavior disrupts my workflow
This problem is constant and continues to be throughout updates of Mp3tag, Audacity and Windows. The fact the I can see for a split second a proper behavior on the second file / instance would indicate that it is the sole fault of Audacity [the receiver] and not Mp3tag [the sender]. But I am also using file handler FreeCommander [http://freecommander.com/en/downloads/] the same way [as as sender] without that problem: every time I get one instance per one file, no matter how many o them I select at the same time. To achieve that I use “favorite toolbar” icon / keyboard shortcut [not to be confused with “favorite folders”] set in FC like that:
Name: Audacity [not important]
Category:
Program or folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\audacity.exe
Start folder: %ActivDir%
Parameter: %ActivSelName%
Enclose each selected item with "
Run: Separate for each selected item
Only sometimes I get a messages saying “File removed from the list of recent files”. [And then I can close that message and open that particular file from within the Audacity, or drag the file over Audacity and release it, or load some other file and then try to load the old one from within FC - so it’s not he fault of the file]
I’m running up to date Windows 7 x64, Audacity 2.1.2, Mp3tag 2.77 and FreeCommander XE 2016 Build 715 32-bit public