de-clicker behavior change [SOLVED]

Penumbra · Post by **Penumbra** » August 7th, 2023, 6:14 pm

De-clicker has suddenly started behaving differently and I don't know why. Before it would simply cut out the clicks. Now it amplifies the marked range by several db. I have reset the de-clicker parameters to the defaults but that makes no difference. Off hand I don't see anything else that is set differently, but clearly something has changed. All suggestions welcome. I am using Audacity 2.4.2 on a windows 10 system.

Winnifred · Post by **Winnifred** » August 7th, 2023, 9:27 pm

Penumbra wrote: ↑August 7th, 2023, 6:14 pm De-clicker has suddenly started behaving differently and I don't know why. Before it would simply cut out the clicks. Now it amplifies the marked range by several db. I have reset the de-clicker parameters to the defaults but that makes no difference. Off hand I don't see anything else that is set differently, but clearly something has changed. All suggestions welcome. I am using Audacity 2.4.2 on a windows 10 system.

How odd. I've been using it for a month or so now, and my De-Clicker is still doing the same thing it always did (removing the clicks without changing anything else). I'm using it on a MacBook running MacOS Ventura, but it should work the same way. I left it at the default settings as those seemed to work just fine.

I think the more significant difference is that I'm using Audacity 3.3.3. I wonder whether updating your Audacity might convince it to behave properly? You'd have to get used to the changes to the program since you last updated. But that's a guess on my part.

Good luck.

Cheers,

Post by **TriciaG** » August 8th, 2023, 5:40 am

Mine's working normally and I'm also on 2.4.2. It doesn't auto-update, so somehow a setting got changed.

The very top option, is it set to "Apply changes"?

Penumbra · Post by **Penumbra** » August 8th, 2023, 11:48 am

Thanks for the responses. I have discovered that there is something mysterious/broken about the audacity .aup file that is causing the odd behavior. If I load the most recent .flac file everything works as expected. First time in 20 years I've had a mishap with .aup, but there it is. Thank you, Tricia, for suggesting that we save as flac, and thank you younger me for doing it now and then!

Post by **TriciaG** » August 8th, 2023, 1:06 pm

Glad you solved it, and that you didn't lose your work!

Today, I recorded a 23-minute section. I exported it to FLAC then restarted my computer. I don't know what happened - maybe I didn't wait for the file to finish deriving before forcing the shutdown - but when I opened up the FLAC, it was only 6 minutes long.

I made just as many stumbles and mistakes the second time recording it as I did the first, LOL!