I have this issue with Audacity as far as I can think back. I even remember having similar problems back on Windows 98. I'm currently using 1.3.9 Unicode on Kubuntu. The problem was always there throughout the years. sometimes it would let me work on 2 or 3 consecutive soundfiles and then it would just not work. Starting from the commandline did not help. I've tried to install ESD and use this -but this caused complete havoc on my installation, so I revertet back to ALSA/Portaudio.
Steps to reproduce: 1. load a soundfile. I usually load wav files of about 25-45 min length 2. either: - cut a few seconds or minutes off the end - select a section and perform an effect on it 3. export the whole file. It does not matter wether you save as mp3 or wav I usually see 100% cpu after step 2, then I know it will die in the next step. The export function lets me see both dialogs, the one to set the tags and the one to select the file location. but after this ... Sometimes it had helped if I start up audacity and close it without actually changing a file. But since recently nothing seems to help. Advice? -- Audacity uses 100% CPU on opening any file dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250367 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs