Audacity Forum

Did you pick "English" the first time the program opened? This kind of thing happens what that system gets scrambled.

Koz

<<<as long as you don't delete any files in there you won't hurt anything>>>

Don't delete any original capture clips. Audacity 1.2.x might still be standing on them. Just a thought.

Koz

<<<But many people have successfully used Audacity and this M-Audio unit, are you saying its not possible to make it work?>>> Oh, it is totally possible--for some people. Remember what your task was from the first message? The task is to produce a perfect, stable install of Audacity on your Mac. I k...

Phonic seems to make about a hundred different mixers. Which one have you got? If GarageBand can see it, then OS-X can see it and the company is right. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input Is your device in that list? If it is, select it and play something so the little flashing lig...

<<<that's a pretty lame attitude.>>>

You probably downloaded the wrong one. Everybody does that. Make sure you know which version of Audacity you have and which processor then read this:

http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=inst ... m=lame-mp3

Koz

There's no shortage of trouble with USB audio devices. What happens if you complete your capture and logging and disconnect the Edirol and restart the Mac? Do all the problems suddenly go away? You might try downloading the 1.3.x version of Audacity. You can install both, but only run one at a time....

That "Janitor" thing is interesting. Because of the UNIX running behind Mac OS-X, a machine is completely self-contained and self-maintaining if you never turn it off. If your machine is running and completely alive (not sleeping) between the hours of 0100 and 0500, you don't need Mac Jani...

<<<So while I like the features of Audacity, until they decide to get serious and fix the *software* problem >>> They did. Stable Version 1.4.x is ready for release. 1.2.x is two versions old and at least one older level of it has known memory leak issues, but I still don't think that's what the pro...

You don't need the Slash and Burn technique. You can make Audacity start over at First Birthday by trashing its preference file. Users > koz > Library > Preferences > audacity Preferences Drag that file to the trash and restart the Mac. That will not clear any damaged sound files or exports, so if y...

<<<"Make a copy of the file before editing (safer)">>>

I believe that option only appears on the latest unstable version of Audacity (1.3.x) and it will appear on the new release version 1.4.x.

Koz