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On Yosemite, using Gale's Alpha build, I wanted to look at the individual samples in a track so set the cursor on the area to zoom into. All was ok until I got really close to seeing what I wanted to see then the cursor jumped out of the window and the next click on the zoom tool resulted in the whole track display moving to the end of the track where the cursor had jumped to. Tried this a number of times and the same thing always happened at the same zoom level in the zoom process regardless of where in the track I initially started the zoom. Tried it in 2.1.1 and it zoomed properly all the way down and then back up. Note this is at a pretty extreme zoom. It happens whether using the zoom tool or keyboard shortcut.

I don't think this is probably a priority item because of the extreme zoom necessary to see it, but it is rather disheartening to be zooming in and then to lose the location and find yourself at the end of the track.

Cliff

Thanks for finding this, Cliff. I can make it happen on all platforms, but it seems to depend on having a track in excess of about five minutes long. I logged it here: http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197.

The fix won't be mandatory for 2.1.2 release, but it might be done.

Gale

Thanks for finding this, Cliff. I can make it happen on all platforms, but it seems to depend on having a track in excess of about five minutes long. I logged it here: http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197.

Glad I could help.

BTW, should I keep using your build of 2.1.2 or are the nightlies changed enough to switch to using one of them?

Cliff

cmac185 wrote:should I keep using your build of 2.1.2 or are the nightlies changed enough to switch to using one of them?

I think the build you have is at "5f985a2" which is still the latest commit at the top of the commit list https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commits/master#.

Audacity > About Audacity..., Build Information tab, Commit ID at the bottom tells you the code revision the build was made from.

The code is "frozen" for testing, so only fixes deemed important enough (if any) will go in now. I'll let you know if there are more changes and if so point you to a build somewhere. I think those focus issues you mentioned are quite bad, but I'll be putting them up soon on "Bugzilla".


Gale

Sounds good. I'll keep using it as it seems to be doing quite well other than the things I've mentioned and none of them are show stoppers for me at the moment. If anything new crops I'll post it.

BTW, I just noticed that the issue with the temporary folder with 2.1.1 seems to be fixed in 2.1.2. That's nice to see.

I'm curious, was the issue with the record buffer only on Yosemite? I know that was when I first ran into it. 2.1.2A so far hasn't had any trouble with the buffer size put back to 100. I'll keep testing it to verify, but if that is the case it's great to get rid of the gotchas.

Cliff

cmac185 wrote:was the issue with the record buffer only on Yosemite?

No, it started getting reported in Mavericks. Possibly wx3 has somewhat fixed the recording side of that problem, but the more significant problem that the default Audio to buffer can cause (clicky playback) is very much still there.

Gale

Interesting. This was just playback, not actually on the recording, correct? So reducing the recording buffer helped that?

Cliff

cmac185 wrote:This was just playback, not actually on the recording, correct? So reducing the recording buffer helped that?

Yes. Reducing the buffer prevents playback problems even in known good audio files such as a CD rip.


Gale

That's interesting as I have never had that issue here. I wonder what could be triggering that. Would be interesting if you got the El Capitan public beta, now the Gold Master RC1, and tried it there since in my case El Capitan eliminated my need for the smaller buffer on recording, even before 2.1.2A.

Cliff

Hi Gale,

Just checking in to see if there are enough fixes yet to make it worth downloading a nightly build to test. Other than the known issues, focus, zoom, tool tips, etc. with the version you compiled, audacity-macosx-r5f985a2-2.1.2-alpha.zip, it has been solid for all I've done with it. Actually I'm getting to like using the keyboard shortcuts to work around the focus issue with the tool bar tools.

Cliff