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#1 2011-10-15 00:04:17
- onexused
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[solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
When I load an audio file in audacity, it never displays the audio waveform(?) correctly any more. What's wrong on my end that it acts like this? Compiling 1.3.13 from source (with no patches) doesn't change anything. Images below for reference.
Audacity 1.3.13 on Linux (most files):
Audacity 1.3.13 on Linux (wav file used below):
Audacity 1.3.13 with wine (wav file):
Audacity 1.3.13 on Windows 2000 (wav file):
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#2 2011-10-15 13:47:18
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
Sometimes weird things happen when your temporary directory is full, check your preferences.
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#3 2011-10-17 23:38:31
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
This happens always, not just sometimes. My temporary directory is /tmp/audacity-onexused which currently has ~350MiB free.
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#4 2011-10-18 00:27:34
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
Does it play properly?
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#5 2011-10-19 02:33:29
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
As far as I can tell, it does everything correctly except displaying the audio waveform (I don't even know if I'm using the right word here), as I mentioned earlier.
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#6 2011-10-20 16:11:03
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
Are you sure you are not displaying the pitch?
If you click on the name of your audio file (onetwo) you have some options to display the waveform/spectrum/pitch
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#7 2011-10-20 18:26:06
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
My guess goes to trouble with graphic drivers, I've had a somewhat similar problem when the radeon driver started to have some acceleration for r600 hardware (now works fine).
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#8 2011-10-23 09:43:30
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
Are you sure you are not displaying the pitch?
If you click on the name of your audio file (onetwo) you have some options to display the waveform/spectrum/pitch
Apparently, that's what needed to be done. Thanks. I wonder how that got changed in the first place.
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#9 2011-10-23 10:58:06
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Re: [solved] Audacity waveform(?) displays wrong
Apparently, that's what needed to be done. Thanks. I wonder how that got changed in the first place.
Maybe you could mark this as [solved], since you have found a solution.
i wouldn't have read this thread at all, except for the fact that it appeared you still needed help.
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