Playback and Recording Level Toolbar are missing scaling and db levels

macOS 14.3b2 and b3 restore the playback and record meters.
M1 MacBook Air

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Thatā€™s fair enough. Audition isnā€™t for everyone. What about Reaper?

This is so ungodly annoying. Itā€™s been so long since weā€™ve been waiting for them to fix this issue. My entire job revolves around knowing my db levels. Is there nothing else that can be done??

Iā€™ve received another report confirming @slomtbrā€™s observation: The meters are back in the latest MacOS 14.3 beta.

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Same issue here. I really need Audacity for my upcoming podcast. Do we really have to wait for MacOS 14.3? That can take some timeā€¦

Is also used the Mixer to get some idea of the volume but it is not perfectā€¦ :frowning:

I believe you can sign up for the beta via https://beta.apple.com/ and/or enable the beta on your system via System Settings ā†’ General ā†’ Software Update, then click the info button ā“˜ next to ā€Beta updatesā€œ.[1]

Unfortunately thereā€™s not much we can do to speed up Appleā€™s OS releases.


  1. according to this help article anyway. ā†©ļøŽ

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I understand. But I can not afford the risk working with not fully approved Apple betaā€™s on my machine. I will have to look at a work around or alternativeā€¦

I just decided to do the Beta to see what would happen, and it fixed the problem!!

Same issue here! Thanks for mentioning the Mixer optionā€¦I can at least use that in the meantime until this gets fixed for good.

Issue is solved after update MacOS 14.3 (yet available)

Yeap- itā€™s fixed with Sonoma 14.3

hurray, hurray, installed Sonoma version 14.3 and Reording Levels are back! :smile:

They still work in macOS Sonoma 14.4

Iā€™ve had a similar issue before. Try going to the View menu and selecting Toolbars > Reset Toolbars. This should bring back your playback and recording meters. If that doesnā€™t work, check your Audacity preferences under Devices and make sure everything is set correctly for your Mac. Hope this helps!