I give up. You have messed up a great app

Sorry guys. The changes you have made to the menuning system require far too many mouse clicks compared to previous versions. I have not the slightest interests in all the bells and whistles you’ve introduced and you have totally destroyed the save function. I’m about to go through my WIP projects and export them as WAVs so I can use what I’ve recorded in a more reliable, friendly app. Bye.

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It is not forbidden to continue use of an old version.

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AGREED. Literally every other month they release ‘another’ useless “update” full of bell n whistle bugs that just mess the app up, instead of improve sessions. Then wonder why users are complaining top to bottom.

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So Literally Every Other Month you can haunt the forum and find the latest version and the reasons you should not update to it. I don’t think an automatic update to The Latest Version is always a good thing— particularly if you’re in the middle of a show.

The caution is not to appear enjoying complaining about it too much. You’re not doing that, right?

We’re clear that all the updates have not been upgrades and some of them have been pretty unhelpful.

My Production Audacity is not the latest one.

There is a new effort to re-issue some of the older tools for people who just couldn’t get the newer ones to behave. That’s a step in the right direction.

Koz

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I asked for this post to be taken down after I calmed down from my temper tantrum. I’m old enough to know that one shouldn’t put pen to paper or finger to keyboard when one is angry, and I’d like to apologise to the devs for doing so. I thought I had the latest version of Audacity but I didn’t, and when I installed it my problems went away.

Sorry for sounding too real here in sharing frustration

I realize some of the older versions are still available for use. It’s just I’ve never known Audacity to release a ‘newer upgrade’ so often, when it used to be like quarterly or what.

I’ve stuck with 3.3.3 as it’s worked the best so far :+1:

It’s been my experience not to leap onto x. x. 0 or x. x. 1 versions.

There was one series that never made it to x. x. 2. It was so unstable the developers did a burn it off and hose it down to the next x. x. 0. From fuzzy memory, that series actually worked pretty well.

Koz

I would advise against planning longterm for this as a strategy.

Depending on what OS you are running Audacity on it is very likely at some stage the OS will update, add additional security or drop support for hardware drivers you are currently using, especially old hardware.

I am sticking with Audacity 3.3.0 and have already made a Windows 10 virtual machine to run it on that won’t update. However that still depends on Windows xx to continue to support the hardware drivers to present devices to the Windows 10 virtual machine.

An alternative solution would be to run a seperate system to run Audacity that is not network connected. That way it can’t be updated and will continue to use your existing devices. However, it won’t support newer devices unless you can install drivers via USB or CD ROM etc.

If you are really unable to use newer version, migrating to a different product is the best solution longterm. Even the most seasoned traveler eventually has to discard old baggage.

++Mark.

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