Audacity won't launch… well, not really.

Hi, I’m having trouble launching Audacity (2.0.0 and 2.0.1 likewise).
I’m using OSX Lion on a Macbook Pro
Audacity bounces in dock for about a minute, then appears as active upon application scrolling (but not in dock). Then I get a window concerning a plugin I need to register (VST Surround Zone). I “Done” that and Audacity now appears to be active in dock, and there is an Audacity menu bar, but with no menus (!).
After a while (about 6 minutes in total) I do get my old Audacity back but it is very unstable and crashes rapidly :cry:

I do imagine it has something to do with the darned plugin. Someone can help ?

Klauss

It could be a problem with the plug-in.

As you can launch the old Audacity version, open that and disable VST effects in Preferences. Close Audacity, then try launching the new version of Audacity. Does it open now?

Hi, thanks for your answer.
No neither version works…

Try giving Audacity a .cfg file that disables VST and Audio Unit plug-ins.

In Finder, Go > Go to Folder, type ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ .

Open audacity cfg to edit it, or if there is no audacity.cfg, create a new text file in TextEdit and save it as audacity.cfg. The content of audacity.cfg should be only this:

NewPrefsInitialized=1
[AudioUnits]
Enable=0
[VST]
Enable=0
Rescan=0

Now try launching Audacity.



Gale

Thank you Gale !
That worked out perfectly !!

My file read as follows :

NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=1.3.7
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
SnapTo=0
DefaultOpenType=All files
DefaultOpenPath=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop
NewImportingSession=1
[Locale]
Language=en
[Directories]
TempDir=/var/folders/ff/3ng24xc48xl84f006s6d7t1r0000gp/T/audacity-Cucuso
PresetsDir=/Users/Cucuso/Library/Application Support/audacity/presets
[GUI]
ShowSplashScreen=0
[GUI/ToolBars]
[GUI/ToolBars/Control]
Dock=0
Order=0
Show=1
X=1623
Y=508
W=257
H=57
[GUI/ToolBars/Tools]
Dock=1
Order=1
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=94
H=55
MultiToolActive=0
[GUI/ToolBars/Meter]
Dock=1
Order=2
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=275
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Mixer]
Dock=1
Order=3
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=501
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Edit]
Dock=1
Order=4
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=377
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Transcription]
Dock=1
Order=5
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=140
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Selection]
Dock=2
Order=1
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=586
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Device]
Dock=0
Order=0
Show=0
X=4
Y=22
W=536
H=27
[RecentFiles]
file1=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop/Mastersample.aup
file2=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop/10 FREE 160312.mp3
file3=/Users/Cucuso/Music/ MUSICA/Nirvana - The Very Best/17 - Rape Me.mp3
file4=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop/ChantierCham.wav
file5=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0060.WAV
file6=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0052.WAV
file7=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0058.WAV
file8=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0057.WAV
file9=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0056.WAV
[Window]
X=4
Y=22
Width=1436
Height=878
Maximized=1
[TagsEditor]
x=281
y=193
width=503
height=411
[Export]
Format=WAV
Path=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop
[MP3]
MP3LibPath=/usr/local/lib/audacity/libmp3lame.dylib
[CsPresets]
Norm_AmpDbGain=1
Norm_RemoveDcOffset=1
Norm_Level=0
EQFilterLength=4001
EQCurveName=custom
EQLin=0
EQdBMin=-30
EQdBMax=30
EQDrawMode=1
EQInterp=0
[FileFormats]
MP3RateMode=3
MP3Bitrate=192
MP3VarMode=0
MP3ChannelMode=0

Which was quite far from your version…
I’ll keep your contents at hand.
Thanks again,

Klauss

Thanks for posting the old file. I don’t see anything obviously “bad” in it, so the problem was probably an Audio Unit or VST plug-in (more likely a new system Audio Unit). .

If you want to find out which plug-in caused the problem, I’m afraid it’s a question of enabling Audacity’s Audio Unit or VST support again and taking plug-ins away from where Audacity looks for them until it launches again.


Gale