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By default, Audacity imports MP3 files with libmad, not FFmpeg. Libmad performs all calculations with 32-bit fixed-point integer representation.

split audio into multiple windows/freq-band channels, e.g. 0-700hz, 700Hz-4khz, 4khz take some of the amplitude waveform data and use that info to control the color of the waveform If you set the "Window Size" in Spectrogram settings to "8", that gives 4 frequency bands. Approxi...

I don't understand this direction as there is no Hw: options in my device toolbar that I can see. Sorry, my mistake. That advice refers to Linux, not macOS. On a Mac, the problem "may" be due to the audio buffer settings. If you open Audacity's preferences and look in the "Devices&qu...

So, I finally got it working. Super :) However, it still shows double reverse slashes [\\] but that doesn't seem to be a problem. Unfortunately that is a quirk of Windows. In the very early days of Microsoft, Bill had the (very bad) idea of using a backslash as the file separator character - appare...

If you're familiar with Python, it would not be very difficult to create a Python script that displays a time counter (stopwatch), and sends a command to Audacity to start recording. Another workaround would be to temporarily reduce the second monitor's screen resolution so that everything is big (o...

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4)Turn on the Allow apps to access your microphone toggle switch.

That's the setting that you need.

and just downloaded the program Did you get it from here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ If not, then you may not have a genuine, or up to date version. I downloaded the Library Which library? Are you referring to FFmpeg? FFmpeg is required for MP4. Installation instructions for FFmpeg ...

Where can I get this plug-in to test it?
Why are you using an ancient version of Audacity? (the current version is 2.3.2 and is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/)

Ensure that Audacity has permission to use the microphone. See: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=100117

It looks like you are still using the old version of the plug-in.