Debugging an Audacity Crash on Windows: From Bluetooth Headset to Open Source Bug Report
A few weeks ago, Audacity 4.0.0 started crashing on my Windows machine.
Not occasionally. Not after doing something weird inside the application.
It crashed every single time I launched it while my Philips TAH6509 Bluetooth headset was connected.
Turn the headset off, Audacity starts normally.
Turn it on, launch Audacity, wait a few seconds, crash.
That was enough to make me curious.
Instead of just working around the problem, I decided to find out what was actually happening.