Audacity Forum

Are there any file formats at all in that export drop-down menu, or is it empty? Can you try Audacity > Quit Audacity then in Finder, use Go > Go to Folder and type: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity Open audacity.cfg in TextEdit, or create audacity.cfg if it does not exist. Delete all the cont...

Recording from turntable with 3.5 mm plug to line in, it had worked before very good. Are you connecting the turntable to a phono amplifier or boom box/Hi Fi, and then connecting the amplifier or boom box to the line-in? You should not connect the turntable direct to the computer. See here: http://...

Yes, 755 on /var/tmp lets me launch Audacity as user bjornebe when /var/tmp/audacity-bjornebe already exists Which makes sense - as long as user permission for /var/tmp is no lower than 5 then any already installed tmp-files should be accessible by the applications that put them there. So what shou...

If memory serves me correct, Ubuntu has root setup in a special way to increase security - there is no root password available to the user, the system takes care of all root interaction via sudo - as a result there is no way to log in to root and consequently root will not act as a user and store f...

Please explain exactly what device you are trying to record from, and how that device is connected to the computer. If you are recording from a USB turntable or cassette deck, please read this page thoroughly as it solves most questions and problems: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/recording_wi...

Others have offered to do the work before now to put Audacity in Apple Store. Audacity Team have ruled it out primarily because the Apple Store is assumed not compliant with the GPL Licence that Audacity is under. See for example: http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-January/007973.html htt...

Sorry this is so difficult. :cry: Can you restart Audacity, try to locate lame_enc.dll in Preferences then choose Help > Show Log... . Right-click in the log > Select All, right-click again > Copy then paste the log here. Do you have lame.exe (I don't mean lame_enc.dll) in "C:Program Files (x86...

Please attach Windows' APPCOMPAT.TXT here - it should be listed in the error message. Here is how to attach files http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936 . Did you increase the "Audio to buffer" setting in the Audacity Recording Preferences as I suggested? The wuauclt ...

I mean the temp directory name with the ~1 in the names is probably the problem, but if you always save a project by choosing the folder (so avoiding the temp directory) it's also a solution.


Gale

DaveMidgley wrote:What language is Audacity written in?

C++ .

Thanks,

Gale