I’m able to navigate to the export menu normally, select my settings, and click “Export”, but the export never finishes. Ardour isn’t totally hung though, because I can still click “Stop Export” to return to my project.
At one point I was getting the error Ignored format '/usr/share/ardour6/export/MP3 (standard).format': encoder is not available, but I installed harvid and that got rid of the error, but not the hanging.
I’m pretty confident it’s not just an expensive task because I’ve tried with a fresh project with a single 2 second audio file and am still unable to export.
Does anyone have any insights as to why this might be happening or how I might get more info about what’s going wrong (after I fixed that initial error, the error log is clean).
Does this happen only with specific format (example: .mp3)?
i recall similar issue with mp3 export on mixbus, which got updated quickly - and mitigated this issue (if there is connection).
might be useful: MP3 export fails
my apologies - i see now that mentioned mixbus version vas 6.2 and you are referring to 6.6.0.
I’m not sure if this is still helpful, but this happens with every audio format. And I was getting the mp3 error when trying to export to BWAV, so that error is actually probably unrelated.
I was using Pipewire as a Jack server. When I switched to ALSA just now, the export succeeded. Looks like a bug in Pipewire (unsurprising, as I’m pretty sure its sound server is still in alpha). Thanks!
Pipewire has not implemented JACK “freewheeling” mode, which Ardour uses for faster-than-realtime export. You can only do realtime export if you are using Pipewire at this time.
I tried using real-time export and it hangs on the last frame of audio when using pipewire. I recommend use ALSA or JACK until Pipewire is production ready