Hi all,
I use Audacity and a couple of plugins since several years. Last version installed was 2.0.0.
My Mac is running Version 10.12.2 (Sierra - latest release)
First I want to highlight that I do not start Audacity from dmg-file - just to prevent unnecessary questions.
After upgrading I recognized that several plugins were not available (nyquist prompt eg) or could not be activated. Because of this I decided to delete all configurationfiles and the entire installation of audacity and reinstall everything - without success.
If I start my fresh audacity intallation from Launchpad the nyquist prompt is not part of my effect menu. If I switch to Add/Remove Plugins there is no entry for that.
The next thing I tried was starting the app from a shell -with a different result. All missed plugins were available or I was able to activate them. When I start from a shell, the gui is english, if I start audacity from Launchpad the gui starts in my local language - german.
After activating the plugins from a shell started audacity they are available in a launchpad started audacity as well, but do not work. If I now start eg nyquist prompt an error will be loged:
Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 2): image not found
Here are all logentries after starting from launchpad:
12:25:21: Audacity 2.1.2
12:25:21: Warnung: Critical Nyquist files could not be found. Nyquist effects will not work.
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avutil from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avformat from ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Fehler: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from legacy path, ‘/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avutil from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avformat from ‘/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Fehler: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avutil from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avformat from ‘libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Fehler: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:25:22: Fehler: Es konnten keine passenden FFmpeg-Bibliotheken gefunden werden.
12:25:27: File name is .mp3
12:25:27: Mime type is *
12:25:27: Opening with libsndfile
12:25:27: Opening with libmad
12:25:27: Open() succeeded
12:25:32: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 2): image not found
Anyone any ideas? I hope so…
Thanks in advance
Matthias