I agree, but the 3.7.1 versions of the OpenVino modules had not been released at the time that LWinterberg posted. Perhaps a note could be added to the original post now that they are available?
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Should I make a backup before installing 3.7?
I would recommend not updating until all of your current projects are complete and safely exported as WAV files. If you must use an updated version of Audacity on an older project, then yes you it is highly recommended that you make at least one backup of the project before opening it in the newer version of Audacity.
since the new version I have problems selecting audio. Then I selected what I want to edit or delete. And then the cursor just jumps somewhere else. Or the whole audio file is selected, while I don’t want that. So the cursor jumps in a direction I don’t want while I am selecting audio. I never had this in previous versions.
3.7.1 breaks use of ffmpeg on Apple silicon.
3.7.0 broke use of the latest ffmpeg version 7 on Apple silicon and required installing ffmpeg 6.1.2 using, with Homebrew, brew install ffmpeg@6 and selecting the library from that install. It appeared that 3.7.0 makes use of the version 6 API of ffmpeg and there was an incompatible change in version 7.0. The latest version of ffmpeg is 7.1. Audacity version 3.7.1 does not recognize either the version 6.1.2 nor the version 7.1 library of ffmpeg. I did not try building ffmpeg 7.0.2 from source to see if that would work. Is it possibly the case that Audacity 3.7.1 dropped support for ffmpeg 6 and supports ffmpeg 7.0 but there was an incompatible API change between ffmpeg 7.0 and 7.1?
Updated to 3.7, and it crashed on “Launch” after installation; created a crash report with a Send button. Clicking the Send button results in “Failed to send crash report.” Details: was using ver 2.7 (worked fine) on Win10 laptop. Deleted that ver, downloaded 3.7 directly (not thru MuseHub), installed and got the above problem. This seems to be a Known problem based on posts here, and no answer regarding possible causes or remedies. 3.7 seems to work fine on my Win11 desktop. Reverting to earlier version, and avoiding published/promoted updates until it’s clear this problem is fixed.
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I have the same issue. I hope there will be a solution soon.
I HATE this!!! I downloaded Audacity YEARS ago and never had any problems, not sure how, but I seem to have had to download an ‘update’ and since then NOTHING works the way it did/should!! TONS of little things bug me, like if I’m editing and want to highlight a section to be deleted, then zoom in, it used to zoom in to where the cursor was in the middle of the screen, so you could line it up with the edge of the highlighted area and see exactly where you were making your cut, you know, like logically how you would want it, but now, if you have a highlighted are and you zoom, for some INEXPLICABLE reason, it zooms to the middle of the highlighted area, you know, the place where you’d have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST IN SEEING!!! But aside from the hundred tiny little problems that bug me, now I can’t get 10 seconds into recording a track before it jumps/pauses/glitches in some way, that upon playback pulls everything out of time. It is SO infuriating I have to turn it off as I’m worried I’m going to smash something to bits!!!
You can at any time re-install that older version which worked for you. Just download it from the website.
Hi, I have been using audacity for years and not had problems exporting. However, I can no longer get my projects to export on the new update. It just says problem exporting on both WAV and mp3. I have loads of space on my computer so that is not the issue and I have tried on both my mac and windows computers.
Thanks