Audacity Forum

Bingo!

george13 and kozikowski, you are both absolute stars. Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

The guilty parties were some very old Nomad Blue Tubes effects components. After removing them, Audacity now opens happily.

Thanks ever so much once again. Case closed!

kozikowski and george13, thank you both very much. I think we might be getting close to finding the cause. I have been searching through my hard drive to try to find any AUs or similar that might be responsible. Unfortunately, I haven't managed to identify the culprit(s) yet. I do have some AUs in m...

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I had the same problem in v1.3.7 and I did not have the "VST bridge" plug in installed. So this would appear to rule out VSTs as being the caused of the problem (thanks - at least this rules out one possible cause). Does anyone know what could be causing the "Required soft...

Hello, Thanks for your reply. No, I'm not a developer. When this problem first occurred (on an older version of Audacity 1.3), I read through these forums to see whether anyone else had experienced similar problems. I wondered whether the problem was related to VST extensions and saw that users were...

Hi, I'm using the latest daily build (Audacity 1.3.9-alpha) on Mac OS 10.4.11. When opening the application, this error occurs: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1695/errordnv.jpg "Required software extensions are missing" It then directs me to the Pace Anti-piracy site. Should this be happening? I...