Soundtrack Pro 2.0 – Waiting for Final Cut Studio 3
Posted July 20th, 2009 @ 11:24am by Erik J. Barzeski
So, for some reason, Soundtrack Pro has decided to crap itself. Every time I click on a track, it crashes. 100% of the time. I turned off the "sync with hardware" checkbox, I've trashed the prefs, I've even re-installed.
I was going to upgrade ((I have "Final Cut Pro 5.1 Studio", so I'm eligible for the $499 upgrade to Final Cut Studio 2, though you wouldn't know it looking at Apple's site.)), but the tea leaves say "wait" because the ship time is 1-2 weeks, and I have a feeling we're going to see Final Cut Studio 3 in a little while. I can wait - I just won't record any podcasts for awhile.
Crash Log
Process: Soundtrack Pro [16750]
Path: /Applications/Soundtrack Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Soundtrack Pro
Identifier: com.apple.soundtrackpro
Version: 1.1 (1.1)
Build Info: SoundtrackProProject-2920000~4
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [215]
Interval Since Last Report: 1992 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 8
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 314 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 7
Date/Time: 2009-07-22 11:24:08.286 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: AFC663EC-FB27-4C92-B375-B9C524C07203
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000bf7fffcc
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x016a1310 tiny_malloc_from_free_list + 22
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0169a1cd szone_malloc + 180
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0169a0d8 malloc_zone_malloc + 81
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00d613d1 _CFRuntimeCreateInstance + 145
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00d791b1 __CFStringCreateImmutableFunnel3 + 737
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00d7a2ce CFStringCreateWithBytes + 94
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x02830d2d -[NSPlaceholderString initWithBytes:length:encoding:] + 61
Console Messages
7/22/09 11:23:39 am Soundtrack Pro[16750] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x6925850 of class NSThread autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Stack: (0x2905f0f 0x2812442 0x28181b4 0x39c603 0x371fbc 0xcf028 0xcce64 0x8fe12f36 0x8fe0e7e3 0x8fe0e8c9 0x8fe04102 0x8fe07bcf 0x8fe01872 0x8fe01037)
7/22/09 11:24:10 am com.apple.launchd[215] ([0x0-0x75b75b].com.apple.soundtrackpro[16750]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
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Posted 22 Jul 2009 at 7:59pm #
This crash started happening to me too, just yesterday. Extremely annoying. It took me twice as long to edit a podcast because I had to work around the crash by right-clicking or using keyboard shortcuts.
I hate to say it, but Soundtrack Pro is one of the most unstable pieces of software I've ever used. At that price, it should be rock solid.
If you find a fix for this crash I'd love to hear it.
Posted 22 Jul 2009 at 8:50pm #
[quote comment="54812"]This crash started happening to me too, just yesterday. Extremely annoying. It took me twice as long to edit a podcast because I had to work around the crash by right-clicking or using keyboard shortcuts.[/quote]
Interesting. What software updates have been released since last Wednesday (July 15 is the last time I used Soundtrack Pro)? I know there have been a few - iTunes for one.
Also, this is interesting:
You're seeing the same?
Posted 23 Jul 2009 at 9:43am #
Wow, good call on the upgrade - new version today.
Now if they could just get around to refreshing Aperture... 😆
Posted 23 Jul 2009 at 2:41pm #
Erik, I get the same indexFromPoint as well. I've submitted this crash about a dozen times to Apple, hopefully it starts showing up on their radar.
Both the new Logic and Final Cut Studio look nice, but of course I'd rather this crash just go away. 🙂 It's been reported in the Apple discussions forum as well.
Posted 24 Jul 2009 at 7:49am #
Well, Apple's gone and released a ProKit update which, for me, seems to fix the problem.
Plus, Final Cut Studio 3 will arrive later today, so I'll be learning Soundtrack Pro 3 soon.