Audacity Forum

OK, so I've installed Endless OS in a virtual machine and installed Audacity with the App Center. When I first clicked the Launch button I got an error saying that the app was missing its runtime, and told be to click the "Update" button. I clicked the update button, waited a few moments f...

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When importing an audio file into an empty project, Audacity takes the sample rate from the imported file as the sample rate for the entire project. Thus, if the first file that you import is one of the 22050 Hz WAVs, then Audacity will set the "Project Rate" to 22050. This will lower the ...

I can try, but I'm not sure how much I can help because if Audacity does not launch at all, then that is most likely a problem with the build (the Endless OS App package) rather than with Audacity itself.

What happens if you open a Terminal window and enter the following:

I think you will need to ask Endless OS support about this. We don't make binaries (executable files) for Linux, and Endless OS installs programs in an unusual way that I am completely unfamiliar with. If you do manage to get it going, please do write back and let us know what the solution was. Also...

Which version of Audacity, and how did you install it?

You can "import" as many audio files as you like, and they will each be imported into new tracks, one above the other (and will all play at the same time :shock: ) To make them play one after another, you need to slide them horizontally so that they don't overlap. The quickest way to do th...

libmp3lame.so.0 is the optional LAME library and is not part of the Audacity application. It is only required if you want to export from Audacity in MP3 format.

I agree that this is a bug. Audacity does something that no user would expect or want (interpret paths relative to some arbitrary directory). Well it's not really an "arbitrary directory", it's the current working directory of the application. Do you program (any language)? Getting the ab...