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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: runonce on December 14, 2011, 01:58:55 PM
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FYI ;)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Bug fixes for:
Interface:
Excessive delay occurred when typing into labels in long projects.
Last digit of TimeText controls could not be manipulated in some formats.
(Windows, OS X) Play and Record shortcuts did not work after clicking in Device Toolbar.
(OS X, Linux) Crash occurred if Toolbars were reset during playback or recording.
Imports and Exports:
MP2 files were not importable without FFmpeg library or an import rule.
Files that could only be imported using FFmpeg imported as noise with no error message if FFmpeg was not available.
Files containing PCM audio but an incorrect extension (such as MP3) caused a freeze.
Effects and Analysis:
An empty command could be added to a Chain which then displayed a Nyquist error message when run.
Plot Spectrum didn't preserve signal level if multiple tracks were analyzed.
Other bug fixes:
Audacity has been provisionally fixed so that it can no longer create block files longer than the sample format or project format allows, and can no longer delete these, which led to data loss. Any overlong blocks found are preserved but "orphaned", so will appear as silence.
Orphan block files were wrongly reported if cutting or copying to the clipboard then reopening the project in the same session.
Fixed some crashes and incorrect movement of audio when dragging tracks.
(Windows) Data loss is now prevented when encountering a corrupted .aup file created in ANSI builds.
(Linux) Restore building if USE_PORTMIXER is not defined.
Changes and Improvements:
Normalize: Faster processing and improved interface. Left-right balance in unsplit stereo tracks is now preserved by default, with a checkbox option provided to process stereo channels independently.
Spectrograms now allow window sizes up to 32768 and frequencies up to half the sample rate (the maximum possible).
Mix and Render now preserves clip length by not rendering white space between time zero and first audio, and preserves audio before time zero. To retain silence before the audio starts, generate silence after render.
Grouped some Edit Menu items into "Remove Audio" and "Clip Boundaries".
CleanSpeech Mode removed from Interface Preferences (it still runs if it was enabled in a previous Audacity but can only be turned off there).
(OS X) Added support for AudioUnit MusicEffects (but no MIDI support).
(Linux) Set the per-user files directory per the program name set in configure.
(Linux) Changed the default location of the Audacity temporary directory to be in /var/tmp not /tmp, so preserving the directory between reboots.
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Yay! Thanks for the heads up, I'm happy to see they addressed the label delay issue, and faster normalization is :coolguy:
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Mix and Render now preserves clip length by not rendering white space between time zero and first audio, and preserves audio before time zero. To retain silence before the audio starts, generate silence after render.
This always pissed me off until I learned to render dead last and set my first track label at something other than the very beginning. So if I had 6 sources (onstage, sbd, and room), I had to tweak the source balances and then do one mass render. I couldn't do 2, and then balance that against the remaining as stuff would move.
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WARNING!!
This fucked up my OS X Lion to the point of COMPLETE REINSTALL!!!
It started to crash, then hang, then.. I just "got rid of it" - then hell broke loose! My mac wouldn't do anything. Not even start.
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^^ That doesn't sound good at all.
I had no problem installing 1.3.14 on a Win 7 computer today. Seems to work fine so far.
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1.2.6 and XP for me.
Bullet-proof.
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anyone else with OSX Lion issues? i'm weary to upgrade, thanks to the above warning.
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WARNING!!
This fucked up my OS X Lion to the point of COMPLETE REINSTALL!!!
It started to crash, then hang, then.. I just "got rid of it" - then hell broke loose! My mac wouldn't do anything. Not even start.
this is why i don't mess with beta versions
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WARNING!!
This fucked up my OS X Lion to the point of COMPLETE REINSTALL!!!
It started to crash, then hang, then.. I just "got rid of it" - then hell broke loose! My mac wouldn't do anything. Not even start.
this is why i don't mess with beta versions
Yep, same here! I've screwed up my system more than once from using... or what is basically testing... beta proggies. Never again.
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Worth noting that 1.2.6 Stable does not support Vista or Win7 - they recommend the beta.
For mac - 1.2.6 does not support 10.4 on...also recommend the beta
As a long time Windows user - the betas have always been very solid.
Perhaps a broken feature or something that didnt work right, but nothing crashy.
And all the stuff they added and fixed in the 1.3 branch makes the program much more useful (like flac export)
I just installed the new version on an XP box and it seems fine.
Noticed it was only in source code for Linux - so sticking with .13 until the repos get something else.
I took a quick peek at the Audacity Beta Mac Forum and didnt notice any major outcry - so, hopefully this is a localized incident.
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the BETA version has WAY better workflow. Bummer to hear that it hung a Lion install!?