Does anyone have a solution or diagnosis for the following. Should I report a bug ?
Use case:
I am digitizing some ~15 year old audio cassettes so I can put them into my cloud or onto audio CDs.
Problem Summary:
Towards the end of a 90 or 100 minute recording Audacity appears to be splitting each of the last few songs into 2 segments and showing these in wrong sequence, both on screen, played live and as exported .wav files.
I have monitored the audio from the cassettes as it has been input to the laptop. There are no problems with the source audio.
Workflow
I have done all this many times with earlier versions of Audacity on both Windows and Linux PCs.
I play the cassettes on an elderly but operational cassette deck (remember Tandy anyone ?) and input the audio via a USB interface to my laptop (Dell XPS 13). I record with Audacity V3.0.2, save the .aup file from each session and transfer it via a portable USB disk to my desktop PC where I also use Audacity 3.0.2 to label the individual songs and export them to .wav files for burning to a CD.
I have done this for several cassettes so far but only one has show the behaviour described. I have digitized the “faulty” cassette twice with the same outcome.
My .aup file sizes are typically 1 – 3 Gb
Computers used
Desktop = intel NUC i5 with 16 Gb ram, running Kubuntu 18.04
Laptop = Del XPS 13 with 8 Gb ram running Kubuntu 20.04
Software
My current Audacity version is 3.0.2
Desktop PC uses a flatpak version, laptop uses a snap.
Thoughts
Have I just done something silly myself ?
Should try version 3.0.3 ?
Should I try the appimage version rather than Flatpak or Snap ?