Audacity Forum

Did you try the MDA LV2 plug-ins?

I've just tested on Ubuntu 19.10, Audacity 2.3.3, MDA LV2 (all default repository versions). I can enable these LV2 plug-ins. Not all LV2 plug-ins will work. In particular, LV2 synths are unlikely to work. There have been improvements made to LV2 support for the next version of Audacity, so more LV2...

Audacity does support importing multi-channel files.
You can check your file on this page: https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline

Audacity is primarily designed for recording, editing and processing audio.
For synthesizing music, you may do better to use a program that is designed for that task, such as "Muse Score".

Is there a label track containing labels below your audio track(s)? https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html
Which version of Audacity do you have? (Look in "Help menu > About Audacity").
Which version of Windows?

dmehrens wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:59 pm

opened by clicking on it in applications

Is Audacity in the Dock?
If it is, try right click on the icon, and select "Open". Does macOS show any warnings or other message when you do that?

When you create an MP3, the audio data is encoded in a special way that reduces the amount of data, so that the MP3 file is a lot smaller than the original audio data. During the encoding process, there is some reduction in sound quality. This is called "lossy compression" (because the dat...

dmehrens wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:59 pm

It downloaded to my downloads folder, I dragged over to applications.

What did you drag over to applications? The DMG file?

When ypu Export as MP3, ensure that you have the settings:
"MP3"
"Constant"
"192"

JimmyT wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:34 pm

Perhaps users/desktop is not writable

This seems peculiar. "users/desktop" is not a standard directory.