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Audacity 2.1.0 feedback

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:37 am
by rambomhtri
Hey, thank you guys for the update, it's awesome to know that Audacity is developed every day. Sadly, none of my desired features/fixes have been done. Well, I reply to post 2 bugs I've already encountered:

1. In Audacity 2.0.6, you could start an instance of the program by just running "audacity.exe" or a shortcut. Now, you can only open a new window using the menu of the already opened instance. If you run a shortcut or the program itself while you have one instance, it won't open a new window.

2. I've been playing with my guitar, recorded some backing track, loop it and play along my backing track. I can't reproduce the bug right now, I don't know why, but it was related to the volume of a track. I had one track in loop mode, with the gain of that track set to -16dB or so. If I stopped it and again pressed the loop key (in my case, "NUMPAD 0"), the gain was reset to 0dB, cause the volume turned up, but the bar was in the same position, so I had to move to the left the gain bar each time I stopped and played the track, until I had no space. Yeah, it was really weird and annoying. I'm trying to reproduce this bug again, but it's working perfect all the time... :lol:

Re: Audacity 2.1.0 feedback

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 1:05 pm
by steve
rambomhtri wrote:1. In Audacity 2.0.6, you could start an instance of the program by just running "audacity.exe" or a shortcut. Now, you can only open a new window using the menu of the already opened instance. If you run a shortcut or the program itself while you have one instance, it won't open a new window.
Running two instances of Audacity at the same time runs a risk of one instance overwriting data of the other instance which could irreparably corrupt both projects.
Two projects may be run simultaneously safely if they are both processes of the same instance, which is what happens when you use "File > New"
You can also launch multiple projects from the command line:

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audacity "file1" "file2" "file3"
rambomhtri wrote:I'm trying to reproduce this bug again, but it's working perfect all the time... :lol:
Isn't it annoying when that happens ;)
If you find steps to reproduce that issue, please do let us know (start a new topic for it so that we don't miss it).