Audacity Forum

Which version of Audacity? (look in: "Audacity menu > About Audacity") For recent versions of Audacity, installation instructions are here (note that plug-ins have to be "enabled"): https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_effect_generator_and_analyzer_plug_ins_on_mac_os_x....

1. Make a backup copy of the project ("Save Project As..." and name it "Something-backup.aup") 2. In Preferences, check that "Ignore blank space at the beginning" is NOT selected: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/import_export_preferences.html 3. Select the first tra...

How big is the project? (Number of tracks, length of tracks)

On this pass I got to chapter 12, saved as and then tried to export. The metadata tab came up, everything looked right, I said go, it went, the load bar took its usual minute or so. But then when I looked at my documentation the last export I did of that chapter on June 23 was still there instead o...

I went to the diagnostics log and all seems normal, it found the FFMPEG files and dlls etc (see below) Yes, that all looks normal. I export the file to MP3, WAV whatever, it goes through the motions of creating the file (asking me where to save it, what to call it), starts exporting (box with the t...

I'm not able to reproduce this problem. Can you provide precise steps that will reliably produce the crash?

I was wondering if the warnings and or errors (bold words) are normal or if they might impact the functionality of Audacity? They are normal. What those messages say, is that Audacity is looking for a compatible version of FFmpeg. First it looks for a "monolithic" FFmpeg. You don't have o...

userman wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:55 am

And why do you think the updates for 16.04 have stopped? I got regular updates yesterday. And periodically the kernel of the operating system is updated.

See: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

Is anyone reading the forum, even? Given that there's around 99.9% response rate, I think it's obvious that your question is unfounded. Webm is a "container format". Audacity still supports Webm, but only if FFmpeg has decoders to match the encoding used inside the Webm container. There's...

userman wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:56 am

All this is very strange

It is not strange at all

Linux Ununtu Studio 16.04.6 LTS is obsolete. It is no longer supported. No one are making updates for 16.04 because it is discontinued. The current version of Ubuntu Studio is 20.04.