Audacity Forum

Did you get Audacity from us? https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ This error can occur when a DLL file has been corrupted or deleted, or if it simply does not yet exist on the machine (in the case of upgrade installs of Windows). This may be a symptom of a virus trying to access DLLs and...

I have doubts about the side-by-side error being the actual cause of the problem, but you could try installing the new Audacity 2.2.2 beta version, which has a fix for the side-by-side error. The beta version is available here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-devel.html/ (be careful to use the tex...

Last night my laptop ran a Windows 10 update, and since that update I have not been able to use Audacity (2.1.1). Whenever I go to run my saved project shortcut or even open the application at all, I get the filepath and the following error: The application has failed to start because its side-by-si...