The most Recent update of Audacity will not work now on my Mac mini that is an apple M4 Pro. I even downloaded the ffmeg as suggested. Can’t seem to find a way to make it work. Please help…I use the program for so many projects.
B-Man
It wouldn’t be the worst idea to step your machine back to the last known good working Audacity. This is one place to get older application versions.
If you step your machine back and it still doesn’t work, you may need to clean out your Application Preferences.
Desktop > Go > Go To Folder.
Delete the Audacity information, or save it on a backup drive.
My day-to-day Audacity is 3.6.2.
Koz
The suggestion you sent was spot on. It works now…guess I can’t upgrade at this point so keep what you suggested.
Thank You!
B-ManKW
Mh, “doesn’t work” is so general - what is happening, and what not? What is the macOS version your computer has installed, and what is the exact version of Audacity you installed?
In general, you should not change versions while you are working on a project (this applies not only to Audacity).
You write that deleting the “audacity” folder in Application Support solved your problem for an older version of Audacity. It would probably also have solved it for the newer version you had installed. I cannot think that an older version works on M4pro and a (slightly) newer does not - if at all, it should be the other way round. So I suppose there was something in your settings folder what Audacity did not like.
I have no M4pro machine here, but it should work from what I read in this forum.
I read that multiple times. Are you suggesting that if someone does an update and it fails, that they should delete their Audacity Preferences? Does that have a clear history of working?
I think I would keep a clear goal of returning my machine to stable business as quickly as possible, not experimenting with update configurations and cleaning.
My suggestions were:
- Step back to an earlier version.
- Delete the preferences if the step-back fails.
If the poster had to do both, then the update may have damaged something.
Given notes from the forum broadly, Audacity doesn’t have a good update track record. I think I would haunt the forum after an update becomes available and see how many brush fires appear.
Koz
Thank you Kozikowski for your help and thought. you may think it was a vague start of the trouble shooting romontschun, I was able to get what I needed to get Audacity to work again on my Mac mini Apple M4 Pro. If it helps with other who may read these, I have a 2024 Mac Mini with an Apple M4 Pro Chip. The macOS I am using is macOS Tahoe Version 26.1. My system was working fine with Audacity until I received the install update 3.7.7 availability. I did the install and nothing seemed out of the ordinary during install. Reopened and tried to import an mp3 file and got an error code. I removed the app and reinstalled at least 4 times and the same error occurred. In my initial research I found that I need to install the ffmeg and so I did. That didn’t work either. I tried numerous times and sought out further research on what the issue may have been creating this issue. That’s when I reached out to this form and received Kozikowski’s suggested fixes. After implementing those suggestions I am able to work with Audacity again. I’m hoping, that if there is a Mac bug of sorts or a code that needs fixed, Audacity will figure it out so I can stay current with all the upgrades they share.
Again thanks kozikowski. If you need further details of the issue I had, please let me know and I’ll try to give you the feedback you need.
B-ManKW