I installed V4 yesterday via Musehub and it worked fine. Today it will not start, I just get a brief ‘wait’ circle and nothing or sometimes a message “Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?”. I’ve uninstalled the app and reloaded using the download without musehub link on audacityteam.org with no change. Tried changing the W11 audio settings in case it’s a startup problem, ran Norton utilities to clean up the machine, restarted. Nothing works. V3.7.9 still works perfectly. I’ve seen a thread from last year about this but there is still no fix.
I’m planning to run some training on Audacity for a new U3A podcast group and would rather be using the new version if I can get it to run!
So this morning I thought I may as well try starting V4 just in case the fairies had looked at my laptop overnight…And they have!
Obvious conclusion is that this magical recovery is the result of a shutdown/start after a reload rather than mere restarts which is all I did yesterday. I should have tried that, I do know it can make a difference but for anyone else who suffers the same problem and reads this post this may be all it takes.
Good to know a full shutdown and restart fixed it. It’s easy to overlook that after reinstalling and restarting multiple times. Hopefully this helps others who run into the same startup issue with Audacity 4.