Comments on: Effects menu in Audacity not working http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2008/03/25/effects-menu-in-audacity-not-working/ Computer and technology questions and answers from Andy Kaiser Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:57:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: mark freeman http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2008/03/25/effects-menu-in-audacity-not-working/comment-page-1/#comment-1317 mark freeman Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:56:28 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2008/03/25/effects-menu-in-audacity-not-working/#comment-1317 Aaarghh! Just worked out what the problem is. Even if you select part of a track, the Effect menu WILL NOT WORK IF THE PAUSE BUTTON IS PRESSED! So you think you've stopped the track, but in fact you only paused it... This is a bit hard to spot - I'd even read something related to this in the help and didn't realise this was my problem - maybe a tooltip to help people who click the Effect menu with a track paused? Cheers, hope this helps the guy above. Aaarghh!

Just worked out what the problem is.

Even if you select part of a track, the Effect menu WILL NOT WORK IF THE PAUSE BUTTON IS PRESSED! So you think you’ve stopped the track, but in fact you only paused it…

This is a bit hard to spot – I’d even read something related to this in the help and didn’t realise this was my problem – maybe a tooltip to help people who click the Effect menu with a track paused?

Cheers, hope this helps the guy above.

]]> By: mark freeman http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2008/03/25/effects-menu-in-audacity-not-working/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 mark freeman Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:52:33 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2008/03/25/effects-menu-in-audacity-not-working/#comment-1316 Hmmm. Nope, I get exactly the same problem. I've sampled a CD, it's a wav file, now I'm dragging the mouse to select a part of the audio clip (it goes kind of greyer), but all the entries on the "Effect" menu are still greyed out. Lots of other menu items are inactive too - I mean ones you'd expect to be active, like "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" under the "Edit" menu - luckily there are toolbar buttons for these (which _are_ working, even though the menu versions aren't). Maybe it's a bug, but the only time I've seen this has been with trial versions of software. I'll look around and see if there's a paid-for version of Audacity, as I really need a destructive audio trimmer, and this looks ideal, if I can get it to work. Cheers. Hmmm. Nope, I get exactly the same problem. I’ve sampled a CD, it’s a wav file, now I’m dragging the mouse to select a part of the audio clip (it goes kind of greyer), but all the entries on the “Effect” menu are still greyed out.

Lots of other menu items are inactive too – I mean ones you’d expect to be active, like “Cut”, “Copy” and “Paste” under the “Edit” menu – luckily there are toolbar buttons for these (which _are_ working, even though the menu versions aren’t).

Maybe it’s a bug, but the only time I’ve seen this has been with trial versions of software. I’ll look around and see if there’s a paid-for version of Audacity, as I really need a destructive audio trimmer, and this looks ideal, if I can get it to work.

Cheers.

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