Audacity getting confused with multiple windows open

[twic]

I'm using the latest stable release, downloaded today. OS X 10.4.11. Sound is coming in through a USB audio codec (a fancy digital turntable - well, actually a piece of excrement, but hey, it's got USB output!!1111).

Here's what i did:

- New document, record some audio.
- New document, record some more audio.
- Go to the first window, place the cursor somewhere in the recording.
- Press the play button on that window.

The second recording plays. That seems wrong to me. I couldn't figure out how to get the first recording to play without closing the second one.

Also, if you've got two windows open, and one's recording, seems that you can't edit the other. If i select a chunk of the recording, the 'delete' menu item is grayed out, and the delete key does nothing - it acts like that recording was playing, or paused. I also can't play that recording.

Basically, it seems like Audacity is getting confused about which recording is active in some situations, or maybe applying global recording/non-recording state in a non-intuitive way. Am i misunderstanding, doing something wrong, or is this a bug(s)?

-- tom

[steve]

Yes you are misunderstanding something - but not to worry, I'll try and make it clear.

You should only open one Audacity window at a time. If you want multiple tracks, or multiple "takes", just create new tracks from the "Tracks" menu.

If you want to play only some of the tracks and not others, you can "solo" a track, so that only that track will play, or you can "Mute" tracks so that those tracks do not play.

Hope that helps.

[kozikowski]

Audacity does not like multiple instances running.

You should try opening up multiple Audacities on a Linux machine. You get a small mushroom cloud over the machine.

Koz

[steve]

You should try opening up multiple Audacities on a Linux machine. You get a small mushroom cloud over the machine.

Lol. Must try that some time