I have been using Audacity to rip music from vinyl for a few years now.
Recently it’s been crashing partway through the rip.
It’s the latest version of Audacity, the latest version of OS X, I have plenty (8GB) RAM and disk space (~100GB).
I’ve restarted, reinstalled Audacity, and reinstalled the Mac recently, but the crashing still happens.
There’s no real warning - just the “Audacity has unexpectedly crashed; do you want to reopen” dialogue.
Any suggestions as to how I could solve this (or gather more diagnostics) would be greatly appreciated
Presumably you mean that you are recording vinyl? If so, what is the make and model number of the turntable and exactly how is it connected to the Mac?
2.1.0 is not the latest version of Audacity. I recommend you trash that version and install 2.1.1 from us: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac.
Reinstalling Audacity does not change its settings. To make sure it has factory fresh settings, quit Audacity, then open Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder and type:
~/Library/Application Support/audacity/
In that “audacity” folder, delete the “audacity.cfg” file.
There should be Audacity crash reports at /Applications/Utilities/Console.app.
Hi Gale, and first off - thanks for your help; Audacity is now running completely smoothly for me, so mission accomplished!
I deleted Audacity 2.1.0 (the latest version on Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/) & its settings, downloaded the latest (2.1.1) version from audacity team.org, and all works without problem
Thanks, Bruce. Yes I guessed that was the problem. SourceForge stopped hosting the Audacity web site without warning a while ago and also limited our ability to edit or add to the files we have there.