I encountered a minor with the last Audacity update to 3.2.2.
I am on an M1 mac and running the M1 version of audacity.
When the update prompt came up, I clicked to update and it downloaded the X86_64 DMG. I had to go to the website to get the M1 version. If I had not been paying attention I could have easily accidentally installed the X86_64 version.
This is incorrect behavior. If you are on the M1 version, it should download the M1 version and not the X86_64 version when you update, or If you can’t do that, just open a link to the website. Not doing so wastes time and bandwidth .
I’m now on Audacity 3.2.2 and macOS 13.0.1 (22A400)
This was logged on the GitHub bug tracker a few days ago Mac: Updater for Apple Silicon version downloads x86_64 version #4036
I was closed as “not planned” - the QA comment says
Closing as not planned at the moment.
It’s hard to detect in a reliable way which architecture the user has. So there will always be a chance that the wrong architecture package will be downloaded. In the future, when we move from x86_64/arm64 packages and instead provide a single universal build, this problem will no longer exist.
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