Audacity Forum

thanks

First off I'm not a terribly technical person so, please, put any answer/explanation in terms I can understand. I don’t understand what would cause me to receive this warning when trying to export a track: “can’t open audio codec aac 0x15002” when I did this operation all the time in previous versio...

I will certainly try it in the morning (when I have a few more brain cells active.) But I'm curious as to why you think it will do anything when it seems specifically for folks who record using Audacity which isn't me?

"I'm curious how you manage to launch Audacity from the dock, because Apple's "Gatekeeper" should stop you. How have you worked around that?"

To be honest I've no bluudy idea. I've just always done it that way.

I just edit and mostly volume changes.
I launch it from an icon either in my applications folder or from the dock.
No the Mac is not set for auto updates.
Why would any of this be a concern?

I first noticed it around two weeks ago. And everything was running fine before that.
I'm using Audacity v 2.3.1.0

NoOverwritePromptz1msAL is the full message and I get it whenever i make an edit (in this case change of volume) to a track already in my iTunes folder.

Why have I recently started getting this message on a Mac using macOS 10.15.2 :

NoOverwritePromptz1msAL

Is there something I didn't click that caused this? Is it an Audacity vs Catalina thing?

Thanks Gale-that did it

The songs (I've tried quite a few) I wish to edit are all coming from iTunes and, for the most part, are in mp4 format. I can neither see nor hear anything. All I see is a blank Audacity screen. All Prefs. are setup in their defaults-nothing has been changed. I can't say that anything looks to be ou...