Audacity Forum

The officially recommended version of Audacity for Ubuntu 18.04 is Audacity 2.2.1-1, which is available in the main Ubuntu repository. There's not much reason to update to Audacity 2.2.2 other than this bug https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=99026 is fixed in 2.2.2, but it is eas...

Topic split from: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=101600 As mentioned in my post above, I've checked that the 2015 C++ version is installed. And both the zip and exe versions of 2.3.0 were downloaded - but no joy ... In your extracted ZIP folder, create a new empty folder and...

Have you tested that .M4A file with your old version of Audacity?

An interesting idea, though there's likely to be substantial technical difficulties. In particular, it would depend on the APIs specific to the operating system on which it is running, and the application into which it is being pasted. Also, for pasting into another DAW you probably would not want t...

BobP wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:53 pm

The only change I made was Settings/Privacy/Microphone/toggle on "allow apps to access microphone"

Excellent
I'll close this topic now.

Have you checked that the USB Audio Codec is enabled in the "privacy settings"? (see: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=100117)

Does Audacity play OK?
When exactly does the error message appear?

All working now?

Initially the hold up was that WxWidgets did not support global shortcuts. I believe that the version of WxWidgets that we now use does support global shortcuts, but Audacity is free software that is primarily developed and supported by volunteers in their spare time, and there are a lot of competin...

hellnah wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:45 pm

Unfortunately there is still no limiter or delay

Look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Effects" and ensure that "Nyquist" is enabled (all of the effect types are enabled by default).