Re: [Audacity-devel] P1 Freeze importing audio files when Default View Mode set to Pitch (EAC).

[Leland <le...@au...>]

Gale Andrews wrote:
> | From Leland <le...@au...> 
> | Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:03:15 -0500
> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] P1 Freeze importing audio files when Default View Mode set to Pitch (EAC).
>> Is this actually a freeze?  I can't make it freeze, but I can make it 
>> "appear" to freeze with a sufficiently long enough file.
> 
> Well it is in the Windows Nightly Build Unicode Release and for
> others on 1.3.9 Release for Windows. 
> 
> Just tried it yet again importing a *1 second* aliased WAV file on a
> freshly booted machine. Yes sure the pitch view appears after .
> 5 minutes of looking at a white shadow of the import progress box, 
> during which time the machine is unusable. 
> 
> This time I got about 10 instances of Task Manager up trying to 
> raise it at all, and ended up with no choice but just to press the 
> reboot button even after actually managing to kill Audacity. 
> 
> When the Default View Mode was fixed so that it actually had any 
> effect, I tested importing WAVs with that preference on and it was 
> fine, so it has somehow broken in the meantime. 
> 
I've got to be doing something wrong then as a 30-second WAV imports 
just fine with Pitch set at default type.  Not as snappy as normal view, 
but quick enough.  And this is running in a virtual machine which is 
slightly slower.

I'll try some more things, but off to lunch now.

Leland