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On my W10 laptop

1) works OK with 2.3.2

2) fails on 2.3.3

3) works OK on the latest 2.4.0 alpha test build

Peter.

My W10 laptop has McAfee on it - and it records fine with Audacity.

WC

This page in the Manual : https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/analyze_menu.html indeed says (more fully) " Currently Audacity cannot load Vamp plug-ins from the Audacity "Plug-Ins" folder . " but the it goes on to tell you exactly where they can be loaded from on a Windows PC Vam...

I have the QM Vamp plug-ins on my PC for QA testing and they do work. There used to be a bug, but the author Chris Cannam fixed that a while back.

Peter.

steve wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 18, 2020 3:36 pm

Are you using Audacity 2.4.0 alpha?

If you are - you should definitely NOT be using alpha test builds for production work - far too risku, far too dangerous ...

WC

An easy way to make more room for the waves is to hide any toolbars you don't need our us.

Alternatively you can float them out of the toolbar docks.

WC

Also, popping out of a live-Record causes IRRETRIEVABLE LOSS!! One could imagine a job failure over that. I think extra accident-prevention here would be more than cool. So to me, possible keyboard/mouse accidents here should be brutally minimized or eliminated. (Spacebar for Start-Stop seems more ...

But I do like the idea of a right-click context menu for the Record button where the context menu offers the choice between "Append Record" and "Record on a new Track". Logged as P3 Bug #2286 https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2286 Right-click on Record button act...

I note from careful reading of both the Microsoft and Apple design guidelines that right-click (aka secondary click) is to be used for invoking context menus (and not invoking commands). Accordingly I will log this on our bug-tracker -where we may or may not decide what (if anything) to do about it...

As Steve says. I had another unwanted STOP recording, so I RIGHT Clicked on the Rec button to see the Help tip for APPEND this track. But it also started unwanted recording in an unwanted virgin track. That seems like a bug. But yes, you're right - Right-click on Record does indeed set off recording...