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What are you doing, making a podcast or listening to a podcast?
If you are making a podcast, tell us about your setup and what you are wanting to do.

Unfortunately that tells us very little. I had hoped that it had got further than that.

Am I right in thinking that the problem first appeared with Mint 19, and is still a problem with the latest 19.3 version?

When you try to launch Audacity from a terminal window, what is the full terminal output?

"AU" files are the data files for an Audacity project. Do not modify, rename or move them. An Audacity project has two parts. A "Project File" which has the file extension ".aup", and a folder containing the audio data. The data folder is named with "_data" at...

So the audio coming out of the keyboard and feeding Audacity has audio of iPad + whatever I play on the keyboard. How do you hear that while playing? Does that have a separate output for monitoring? If you generate an "Audio device info" file, and post it here, that may help us to see wha...

I'm currently using Xfce 4.12 with Ubuntu 18.04 ("Xubuntu 18.04").
Audacity 2.2.1 (from the main Ubuntu repository) works fine here.

And I still don't understand why it isn't designed to do this anyway. It doesn't make sense to me The basic problem is that Audacity only has one set of metadata for the "project". It does not make sense for Audacity to try to maintain a set of metadata for each "track", because...

Until I get chance to test on a Mint machine, I'm out of ideas.
As far as I'm aware, Mint uses Ubuntu's build of Audacity, which works fine on Ubuntu (I use it myself).

Gtk-WARNING **: 15:00:54.166: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init() That is not a critical error. It is just a warning that there is a call to gtk_disable_setlocale() that will be ignored. That happens for me too, but not a problem. A similar problem was reported on Ubuntu, which...

The old Equalization effect was retired (discontinued) because over the years it had become buggy and it's code unmaintainable. Audacity 2.3.3 has the first version of two new effects to replace it: Graphic Eq https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/graphic_eq.html Filter Curve https://manual.audacityte...