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[email protected] ~ $ That shows that you are logged in with the user name "mint", and the name of the computer is also "mint". The first word before the "@" is the name of the logged in user. The word after the "@" is the name of the machine. What result do you get ...

This means that's off-topic. Considering that this is the Audacity forum, this whole thread is off-topic. The spectrogram images are made of real numbers pixels Yes, but FFT is used for interpreting the pixels as sound, and FFT makes use of real and imaginary pairs. What if audio samples were allow...

1) Was the recording "jerky"?

2) Leave the recording running for an hour or two (perhaps with your Mac near to a TV so that there's some sound for the mic to pick up). Does it sound like two recordings over the top of each other?

the conversion process of my chain produces yet another 441hz track instead of a 432hz track You have still not answered my question: What do you mean by "441hz track"? Perhaps you are referring to the track sample rate of "44.1 kHz" ? Why didn't the metadata change after the ba...

Open a Terminal window.
What text is in the window when you open it?

I have renamed audacity.cfg and tried to edit metadata on a virgin .wav file -- it worked! Great stuff :D In fact, everything seems to be working now. What does that tell you? I don't see anything obviously wrong in that file, and I can't reproduce the problem on Linux. I see that you have custom d...

See here for how to select audio: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/aud ... ction.html

What is the user name that you are logged into your computer with?

mac_audio wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:39 pm

as you'd expect on a laptop the quality is horrible.

I'm not surprised that the quality is horrible, but my question is, do you get the same weird problems that you get when using Loopback?

What is the "Loopback" that you spoke of?

Does your Mac have a microphone? If so, does Audacity work correctly if you record with the microphone?