Audacity is lagging with new Mac Update

[villella33]

Hi All,

Trying to figure out how to troubleshoot. Mac wanted an update a little over a week ago. Since then, everything seems to be lagging, and Audacity will crash when I initially open it. Thoughts? I appreciate your feedback!

Donald

[villella33]

Thank you, Tyson. I’ll reach out to them. Unfortunately, I don’t have the computer background to troubleshoot the system requirements myself. I appreciate your response!

Donald

[LWinterberg]

Likely the same issue as here:

Highlighting Audio in MacOS Sonoma is Lagging/Jerky

I’m on an M1 MacMini running Sonoma. Since updating the OS, I’ve noticed that Audacity is “jerky” when selecting parts of an audio track to edit (dialogue in a podcast). For example, If I were to drop the cursor at the end of the sentence, holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to the left, to get to the beginning of the sentence, the “highlight” lags behind and won’t completely follow the cursor until I’ve let off the left mouse button. This may be a Sonoma issue. I am usi…

[villella33]

I’ll take a look. Thank you!