Howto Install bandstop.ny on audacity-freeworld

Programming and Development Nyquist
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I moved from using windows for audacity to Linux and discovered that the easy way to get Audacity to run MP3 files was to install Audacity-Freeworld. Great, but I need a Bandstop to run here and can’t simply cut and paste to do this in Linux. If I have to change from Freeworld, that’s ok or do some workaround. Help!

Charlie

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The Audacity plugins directory under Linux usually is “/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins” or with self-compiled Audacity versions it’s “/usr/local/share/audacity/plug-ins” but you need superuser (root) privileges to copy files into these folders because they are write-protected for normal users.

Under Linux there is an easier trick to make Audacity recognize your own plugins:

  • First create a directory named “.audacity-files” (starting with a dot) in your $HOME directory.


  • Then create a subdirectory named “plugins” in the new “.audacity-files” directory.

All Nyquist plugins in this “~/.audacity-files/plugins/” directory are recognized by Audacity when it starts.

Important: Do not use the already existent “~/.audacity-data” directory, that’s where Audacity stores its configuration files and backup data. You need to create a new “~/.audacity-files/plugins/” directory, otherwise Audacity will not find your plugins.

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Edgar,

I tried to set up the .audacity-files directory using mkdir in the terminal at “$” and “#” with no luck-maybe I missed some steps.

I know how to operate as the root user and would like to know how I can move the bandstop.ny plugin from downloads to /usr/share/audacity/plugins


Thanks,

Charlie

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For Debian (uses “sudo”) a file can be copied with root privileges using

sudo cp "<full-path-and-file-name to file that is to be copied>" "full-path-and-fileneme of destination"

If the path or file name for either file contain any spaces then the quotes are required.
The path and file names are case sensitive.
Other Linux distros may use “su” rather than “sudo” or may require that you run the command (without “sudo”) in a root terminal.

However, this is not necessary.

Just create a folder called .audacity-files in your home directory,
for example, if your home folder is /home/charlie/ then you need to create a folder: /home/charlie/.audacity-files

Then create a sub-folder called “plug-ins”, for example:
/home/charlie/.audacity-files/plug-ins/

These folders should be created with your standard user account - they are in your home folder so you do not need (and should not use) root privileges to create these folder.