Audacity Forum

Not sure if this is allowed in the forums or not, but I created a really simply "Automator" script that you can simply double-click on to open Audacity and have it working. Because Automator allows you to save these scripts as an application, you can actually pin the script to the Dock just like any...

You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command: open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Very useful insight there noraa :ugeek: 8-) Once I'd found out where Apple hide the Terminal app ;) On first use it asked told me that audacity wanted to access the mic - and ...

See this Forum announcement Audacity under macOS 10.15 Catalina And many thanks to noraa for posting that workaround Peter Hey Peter, I'm so glad my post was able to help people! That's awesome, as I literally joined these forums just to post that. In any case, I noticed in your announcement that t...

Hey RBSherrane, I'm the forum the member who originally posted the workaround. Hopefully I can help you get it working. What issue(s) are you still running into after trying the workaround?

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:06 pm

noraa wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:41 am

You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command:
open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity

Have you tried making a Desktop alias to the Audacity executable? If so, does that work for you?

Awesome, that works!

The issues on Catalina are NOT driver related, but related to some of the new security and permissions requirements in Catalina. First, when an application attempts to access any sound input device, said application requires explicit permission from the user before it can access the mic. Second, the...