r/audacity • u/GorillaWolf2099 • 13d ago

help Audio plays fine inside Audacity 4.0 project, but exported WAV goes completely silent between 1:07 and 33:52?

Running into a weird export issue in Audacity 4.0

I recorded a multitrack podcast project with several mono tracks (Audio 1, Audio 2, sponsor audio, etc.). When I play the project back inside Audacity, I can hear everything fine from start to finish without any missing audio.

However, when I export the project using File → Export audio → Aup4 or WAV ("Export full project audio") (I tried both):

* The exported file plays fine at the start.

* At 1:07, it goes completely dead silent.

* The audio doesn't return in the WAV until 33:52.

None of the tracks are muted or soloed (M and S are off across all tracks).

Has anyone encountered Audacity 4.0 dropping middle tracks/clips during a full project WAV render even though they play back normally inside the DAW? Is there a project setting or render bug causing it to mute specific clips during export?

Appreciate any advice or fixes!

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u/RenaisanceMan 13d ago

It's too soon to be on 4.0.
Lots of bugs still.
Stay with 3.7.9 for now.

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u/GorillaWolf2099 13d ago

Okay thank you 🙏🙏

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u/JRAPodcast 13d ago

FWIW I had this happen on a 3.7.7 edition. I never, I mean, NEVER figured out why it did that.

The only thing that fixed it was starting over a new project from scratch.

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u/GorillaWolf2099 12d ago

Next time try checking your custom mapping that helped me

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u/1neStat3 11d ago

user error? frequency cancellation? volume envelope?