Can't change pitch, tempo, or speed, nothing works!

[Gale Andrews]

Have you done a reinstall using a fresh download and the Reset Preferences option checked? Nowhere in the thread did you explicitly say that.

Reset Preferences won't help (and it does not change effect registration or effect settings even if it was an effect settings problem).

The answer is to change the Windows numbers formats back to decimal point, or you will only be able to apply effects where all the controls are set to whole number values (which mostly won't be possible with Change Tempo/Speed/Pitch).

Or if you can understand a non-English language that uses comma separator, change to that language in Audacity's Interface Preferences.

I think, but have not double-checked yet, that we cannot easily remove this restriction that the decimal separator in Audacity matches the system separator. And we won't want to remove the validation.


Gale

[Gregoras]

I did everything, even resetting preferences when reinstalling. I have also made absolutely sure everything is set to English (United Kingdom) in my Windows settings, number formats, everything. I now see that Audacity has taken upon this new setting and has changed value separators to dots. Want to know what's funny. It STILL gives me the same error! Just like my previous screenshots. The commas are now replaced with dots, but it seems to have not changed anything at all. I'm about to throw my laptop out the window lol.

[steve]

I now see that Audacity has taken upon this new setting and has changed value separators to dots.

Good, that's a start.

Do "any" of the built-in effects work as expected?

[Gale Andrews]

I did everything, even resetting preferences when reinstalling. I have also made absolutely sure everything is set to English (United Kingdom) in my Windows settings, number formats, everything. I now see that Audacity has taken upon this new setting and has changed value separators to dots. Want to know what's funny. It STILL gives me the same error!

Try this. Quit Audacity, then open File Explorer or your favourite file manger. Type or paste

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%appdata%\audacity

into the address bar and hit ENTER on your computer keyboard.

In the folder that appears, delete the "pluginsettings.cfg" file.

If that does not help please tell us what language Windows 10 is installed with.


Gale

[Gregoras]

Ok so none of the suggestions helped. My Windows is installed as English (United States) origianally, but I thoroughly went through every setting to ensure that it became English (United Kingdom). What Windows builds are you guys working on? Can you give me a specific set up example whereby these effects will work? Can you also replicate a full installation on your end so that I may try to emulate it on mine?

And by the way, not sure how it helps, but upon first noticing this issue and a few attempts to try to rectify it myself, I went ahead and installed the LADSPA plug-ins. And to be honest, as I suspected, it didn't work.

[Gale Andrews]

I've tried with Audacity 2.1.2 and 2.1.3-alpha from official sources http://audacityteam.org/download/windows.

Here are my settings when I open intl.cpl:

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Windows settings could be messed up. You could reset your PC.

Or if it worked before and the problem has only just happened, try a System Restore back to a date when it worked, if you have System Restore enabled.


Gale

[Gregoras]

Brilliant, I've adjusted it exactly according to your settings and it worked! Sorry for the headache guys. Case closed, you can stop the thread now lol.

[steve]

Brilliant, I've adjusted it exactly according to your settings and it worked! Sorry for the headache guys. Case closed, you can stop the thread now lol.

Thanks for letting us know.
Out of interest, did you notice which settings were different on your computer from the settings in Gale's post?

[Gale Andrews]

Windows 10 allows apostrophe to be set as decimal separator. I tried that out, but it does not create a problem in Audacity running in System, English or locales where comma is the separator.


Gale