Bug 2607 – Format setting of Wave tracks does not persist

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 2607 - Format setting of Wave tracks does not persist


Summary:	Format setting of Wave tracks does not persist

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Application Core
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 Repeatable
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

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Reported:	2020-12-03 11:23 UTC by Paul L
Modified:	2020-12-11 08:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	1) Observe the sample format choice in Quality settings (which is float by default) 2) Make a new track in a new project 3) Change its format with track control panel menu 4) Save the project 5) close the project 6) Reopen the project Observe: the track format reverts to the Quality setting
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Closed:	2020-12-11 00:00:00

Flags:	petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Win+ petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Mac+ stevethefiddle: Test‑OK‑Lin+

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Description Paul L 2020-12-03 11:23:47 UTC

Note that the format setting of a wave track determines the sample format in new clips made by recording or generating.

So append-recording after this might make a track with clips in different formats.

That does not necessarily have very bad consequences.

Comment 1 Paul L 2020-12-03 12:09:02 UTC

Fix is at d4f4241b5795383de5ffaf34373b7b00ebf53e2f

Comment 2 Peter Sampson 2020-12-05 09:02:16 UTC

(In reply to Paul L from comment #1)
Tested on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 a675b59

This now works properly

At Step 1 my Sample format was 32-bit float

At Step 3 I changed the Step 2 track to 24-bit

At Step 6 the Step 2 track remained at 24-bit

I repeated the steps changing at Step 3 to 16-bit


Both use cases worked properly

Comment 3 Peter Sampson 2020-12-05 09:06:05 UTC

(In reply to Paul L from comment #1)
Tested on macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur with Audacity 3.0.0 a675b59

Same good results as on W10

Comment 4 Steve Daulton 2020-12-11 07:15:21 UTC

Also works on Linux.

Comment 5 Peter Sampson 2020-12-11 08:16:41 UTC

This bug occurred in 2.4.2 - hence FIXED rather than QUICKFIXED