Well, this is a sad day. I’ve been using Audacity since 2007 with XP, 7 and now 10 and had zero problems with it. Today, however, an arrogant monkey with a typewriter at Audacity decided that I should have the version of the software that THEY think I should have, not the one that I choose to have. Result? Twice today (the second time just now after restoring from an image and checking the update settings) my version has been auto-updated without my consent.
I thought that this kind of cowboy bullshit had disappeared around the turn of the century, and it’s certainly never happened to me for 20+ years. So, a heartfelt “fuck you” to the monkey responsible and it looks like I’ll be going elsewhere for audio editing. Byeeeeeeeeeeeee.
As far as I know it will offer but it won’t install/update without you approving it and going through the install process. I’ve never had it update itself…
You can go to Edit → Preferences → Application and un-check ‘Check for updates’.
I have never had Audacity update itself without asking me, but based on the number of people posting complaints about this, it must be happening.
People also post about Audacity suddenly behaving differently due to settings changing that they swear they didn’t change.
Based in this, I think that the settings are a bit fragile. Are they saved as binary values, or XML? I think that XML would be less likely to change due to a slipped bit somewhere. I haven’t looked myself, and I don’t have access to it right now.
After the second auto-update, I reinstalled my preferred version (3.1.3) over the top of it rather than deleting it first (as I did the first time) and after 4 hours things are looking good.
Also nice to see that swearing is allowed on the forum. So many sites now where one has to tread on eggshells - hello Steve Hoffman forums, you woke, snowflake bastards.
I’m not sure if there is a rule, but we DO try to be civilized and family friendly, so don’t get carried-away. It’s rarely necessary or helpful, and this is a user-to-user forum so you’re searing at volunteers who are trying to help you.
The developers may sometimes keep an eye on the forum, but they aren’t very active here.
I recently had one of my machines do that. I wasn’t in production. I was illustrating a condition for a poster and the presentation didn’t look right, so I checked the version. What the frog…?
Is this a bug yet? Evil behavior experienced by multiple people on multiple machines?
It’s rarely necessary or helpful, and this is a user-to-user forum so you’re searing at volunteers who are trying to help you.