LADSPA plugins don't work after install

[Michael Wogan]

Audacity ver. 1.2.6 running under Windows XP Home, SP3. I ran the file LADSPA_plugins-win-0.4.15 which installed the plugins in the default, C:Program FilesAudacityPlug-Ins. All the plugins seem to be there in the sub-directory, but the Spectrum Analysis and two other plugins on the Analysis menu (Beat Finder; Silence Finder) are still greyed-out. Is there something I need to do so the program can find the plugins? Reinstall Audacity? Thanks..

[kozikowski]

Whenever people start having wacky system problems like this, we push them over to Audacity 1.3.12.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Audacity 1.2 is really old and hasn't been updated, patched, or corrected in a very long time. Be sure and get the lame and FFMpeg from the same place you get the program. They're not all the same.

Koz

[steve]

I would certainly recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12 (There has been no development work or bug fixes to Audacity 1.2 for years, and Audacity 1.3.12 is a much better program).

Re. the actual problem, for most effects and tools;
Audacity must be "Stopped" (not playing, recording or paused)
You need to select some audio first - click and drag along the track to make a selection, or double click on the track to select the entire track.