Reclassify custom plugins from "n/a"

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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How would I edit these older, optional plugins to be listed under “Custom” rather than “n/a”?

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We show the vendor of the plugin in that list. And it seems like the vendor decided to use “N/A” as the vendor name. If they’re nyquist plugins, you can edit the vendor name directly in the .ny file (open it in Notepad, for example)

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Thanks for your reply. I’ve looked into the metadata within a standard .NY file and it does not match up with what you’ve said. This “Clip Fix” plugin below, for example, is listed in Audacity “Effect” menu under “Noise Removal and Repair”. Where is that indicated in the metadata?

$nyquist plug-in

$version 4

$type process

$preview enabled

$name (_ "Clip Fix")

$debugbutton false $author (_ "Benjamin Schwartz and Steve Daulton")

$release 2.3.0-2 $copyright (_ "GNU General Public License v2.0")

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Well, the answer to this “n/a” category situation is important for me to.
As described by Lwinterberg, the reason can be a no “$ vendor” flag at nyquist header of a plugin.
But other legacy plugins do not have a “$ vendor” flag and they have a category.
I have 5 or 6 plugins (De-esser, Amplify left or right channel, and so on) in this category “n/a”.
So, nyquist plugin version has no relation to “category” menus ?
I kindly would like to have an answer of an Audacity expertise related to it.
I tired to see this “n/a” category in Effects menu …
Please how to get rid of it ?

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Please, developers and Audacity experts, have an eye of spy to this strange behavior regarding to “n/a” category of Effects menu.

  1. Take a look at the header of Turntable Warping (v3) nyquist plugin:
    ;nyquist plug-in
    ;version 2
    ;type process
    ;name “Turntable Warping (v3)…”
    ;action “Warping audio…”
    ;author “Others …”
    ;info “by David R. Sky and Steve Daulton.\nBased on warp tutorial by Roger B. Dannenberg\nReleased under GPL v2.\n”

  2. And take a look at the header of amplr.ny nyquist plugin:
    ;nyquist plug-in
    ;version 2
    ;type process
    ;name “Amplify left or right channel…”
    ;action “Amplifying one channel…”
    ;author “Others …”
    ;info “Amplify left or right channel by David R. Sky”

They are exactly the same … with the same flags (version, type, … author).

But when you view then on Effects image bellow), one of them are identified by the name (not classified in any Category) and other one remains on “n/a” Category.

And more, Lwinterberg talk about a vendor flag that is not clear or shown here. But it seems it is not the issue.

Well, what you can say about it ??

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Ah, sorry, in nyquist it’s indeed called ;author, not vendor. If you open Presets and Settings inside the effect and then go to Info, you’ll see that the vendor field there matches whatever you put into the author field.

I’m afraid I’m unable to reproduce this. I just added ;author "Other ..." to a 2 of my plugins, and they show up just fine under that submenu.

The only two ideas I’d have are:

  1. In you paste, I notice that you use “Others …” using gramatically correct quotation marks “” instead of the ones Nyquist wants "". I assume this is some sort of prettification done by the forum software, but please double-check that you use the correct ones.
  2. I noticed that the name didn’t update immediately when I changed the ;author field, I needed to go to Effects → Plugin manager → Rescan plugins first. After that, it showed it under the correct category. Is that not the case for you?
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Yes, that works. Thanks!