Getting noise removal profile crashes Audacity Beta

[SACarrow]

I'm on WinXP SP3, and upon clicking Get Noise Profile after selecting an interval results in an immediate "Send Error Report?" - style crash. I DLed the alpha (Audacity ® 1.3.8-alpha_May 1 2009 (Unicode)) and it happened there as well. I was using noise reduction with abandon a couple of months ago with 1.3.7; is there a DLL that might have been overwritten when installing another app? Also I was trying this on a WAV file, so I don't believe MP3 issues are involved.

Thanks,
Steve

[kozikowski]

"This always used to work until I started filling up my hard drive?"

How long does it take to defrag your drive? Does it pass error check OK?

koz

[Gale Andrews]

I'm on WinXP SP3, and upon clicking Get Noise Profile after selecting an interval results in an immediate "Send Error Report?" - style crash. I DLed the alpha (Audacity ® 1.3.8-alpha_May 1 2009 (Unicode)) and it happened there as well. I was using noise reduction with abandon a couple of months ago with 1.3.7; is there a DLL that might have been overwritten when installing another app? Also I was trying this on a WAV file, so I don't believe MP3 issues are involved.

Unless you are using Clean Speech Mode (Interface tab of Preferences) the noise profile is stored in memory. I can't reproduce a crash here. Try completely resetting your preferences by removing all content from audacity.cfg except "NewPrefsInitialized=1". Instructions here.

Pres ALT + CTRL + DEL then the Performance tab of Task Manager. Keep an eye on CPU and memory usage when using Audacity.


Gale