Bugzilla – Bug 1905
Labels with more than 260 characters fail to load (with no warning)
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:45:42 UTC
This bug has existed since at least Audacity 2.1.3. (see steps to reproduce). The use case for very long label text is transcription. It is reasonable for their to be a limit to the length of label text as labels may be used as file names in Export Multiple, but as labels may also be used for transcription purposes it is highly unsatisfactory that we silently discard long labels. This limitation of labels does not appear to be documented in the manual.
(In reply to Steve Daulton from comment #0) > This limitation of labels does not appear to be documented in the manual. I have added a note in the manual about this, and a couple of other "limitations" that are unlikely to be resolved in the near future. https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Label_Tracks#Limitations_of_Labels
This could be considered as more serious than P3 as it involves an unrecoverable loss of data, that label text
DEVEL - FIX MADE https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/9eab948fb19f41ba81d2a3ae4d5323929af77cea
Testing on W10 with James' AppVeyor build #73 When the project is opened at Step 4 the long label is still there. For all I know it may be truncated - or it may not, it's too hard to count. There is certainly no warning about exceeding a maximum label length - an I do think it would be reasonable for us to impose a limit and enforce it with a warning/error message at label creation time.
I tested with 0123456789a0123456789b0123456789c and so on, and I could see that 0123456789z was present - by zooming in on the audio track and scrolling left and right. All present and correct. So marking RESOLVED FIXED. Rather than a limit on label size, at some point we should support wrapping of labels when labels are long, or perhaps another way to display long labels than in a track.
