Bugzilla – Bug 46
GSM 6.10 files cannot be exported - failure messages are unhelpful un-illuminating
Last modified: 2019-09-01 14:20:11 UTC
I can't really cooment on this 0r test if it is still extant as I have no idea how to access these exotic output formats
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Testing on W10 with 2.3.2 RC001 exporting as type "Other uncompressed files" a mono audio track a) I cannot export with WAVEX header and GSM 6.10 encoding - a proper error message is generated (but note that ther is no "?" help button) b) with WAVEX header and U-Law or A-Law encoding - the export proceeds properly and the resulting .wav files are playable properly.
I repeated the tests with a stero track and got the same results - the GSM 6.10 is to be expected with stereo as it only supports mono - the error message is not very helpful in this respect as all it says is: >Cannot export audio in this format It would be more helpful (in the stereo context) to tell the user that GSM 6.10 only supports mono - not that it does in Audacity, given this bug. ------------------------------------------- I will be testing this bug on Mac when I get back to the UK - but I'm thinking that we can clean this bug to be restricted to GSM 6.10
(In reply to Peter Sampson from comment #4) >It would be more helpful (in the stereo context) to tell the user that >GSM 6.10 only supports mono - not that it does in Audacity, given this bug. See Bug #1001
(In reply to Peter Sampson from comment #4) >I will be testing this bug on Mac when I get back to the UK I finally fot around to testing this on my macOS 10/14.6 Mojave with 2.3.3 alpha jc007 - and on Mac >Header - WAVEX >Encoding - GSM 6.10 also fails the export with an unhelpful message when exporting mono Exporting Stereo with WAVEX/GSM 6.10 gives the sane very unhelpful error message "Cannot export audio in this format" when it should be telling they can't export stereo in this format >but I'm thinking that we can clean this bug to be restricted to GSM 6.10 As with W10 test in comment #3 >with WAVEX header and U-Law or A-Law encoding - the export proceeds >properly and the resulting .wav files are playable properly. works for stereo and mono Accordingly I purged this bug report (title, steps, release note and workaround) of the U-Law or A-Law encoding references
Bug #1001 is effectively a duplicate of thgis very old bug The error messages should be improved to tell the user just why the export does not take place (different messages for stero and mono)
*** Bug 1001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
DEVEL - FIX MADE https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/844778797a19082fb505774233cf09c97c4a6250
Testing on W10 with audacity-2.3.3-alpha-341-72f36f8a82e9ed4a184b9029cb53780e62a9bea8 The two error messages are steps 4 and 6 are very much improved and are helpful.
