Audacity Forum

If you try launching Audacity from a Terminal window, the messages in the Terminal may give some indication of where Audacity is getting stuck.
To launch Audacity from a Terminal window, open the Terminal and enter:

I answered a similar question here (the last few posts of the thread): viewtopic.php?p=381788#p381788

the_tourist wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:09 pm

Initially I had installed the version of the repository that I believe was 2.2.1, but since it didn't work

In what way did 2.2.1 not work?

Please note that most PPA's offer no user support, so I would not generally recommend using them.

If your audiophile 2496 does not have a stereo mix option in the Windows Sounds settings, then the fallback solution is to use a stereo audio cable to connect the "line out" from the sound card to the "line in". This is described in the "Loopback cable" section on the s...

Do you have a "Stereo Mix" option as shown here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tut ... ndows.html

Note that "WASAPI" is not available on Windows XP.

christop wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:04 pm

I'd just love to see greater adoption of Opus.

Me too. A good start would be for us to get full Opus support built into Audacity.

When I go to Effect->Add/Remove Plug-ins I get a new page that shows them, with controls to enable/disable but no apparent way to "add" this. They can't be enabled because they're not actually there. Unfortunately the Effect Manager does not yet clean out old effects that are no longer pr...

Until we sort this, here's the curve you should be able to install in the current equalizer. "Low rolloff for speech" is already included in the "Filter Curve" effect. In the "Filter Curve" effect, click the "Manage" button, then in the "Factory presets&...

In the "Filter Curve" effect, click the "Manage" button,
then in the "Factory presets", select "Low rolloff for speech".

It has been replaced with the "Filter Curve" effect: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/filter_curve.html