Audacity Forum

Hi all,

I am running latest update of Leopard on Mac Book Pro. I downloaded 1.2.5, dmg downloaded properly, it mounted and copied itself to Downloads dir. When i clicked on Audacity icon, it complains "You can't open Audacity because it is not supported on this architecture". I suppose I have right version:

ma1:MacOS djdule$ pwd
/Users/djdule/Downloads/Audacity 1.2.5/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS
ma1:MacOS djdule$ file audacity
audacity: Mach-O executable i386

Any idea ?

<<<executable i386>>>

I see words like that on Windows machines...

Koz

I get this same error code with 1.2.6 on a Titanium Powerbook PPC G4 867 mhz with Leopard 10.5.2. And I put Audacity in a folder named Audacity in the Applications folder, as directed.

Any suggestions? I really need Audacity to work - I have 1.2.3 (I think) running on my G4 mini with OS 10.3.9, but I've been wanting to upgrade Audacity upon migrating to Leopard

Thanks…I'll keep trolling the forums, in case this has been answered somewhere else.

No, I mean you somehow got the Windows version of Audacity.

Koz

Thanks for the prompt response. You may be right. I re-downloaded it from the alternate site. But the result is the same as before.

I don't know if it's a Windows version, but my computer seems to know it won't run before I even open it. In the Finder, the Audacity icon shows up with a circle & slash over it. I've never seen that before, but I'm new to Leopard, if it's a Leopard thing.

What I downloaded is titled audacity-macosx-ppc-1.2.6.dmg, and the program inside is called Audacity.app. GetInfo identifies the kind as Application, 6,899,056 bytes, created on October 25, 2006 at 1:22 am. [I'm in the Pacific time zone]

Can someone who's running the PPC version of 1.2.6 confirm that this GetInfo matches the version that they have? At least that will determine whether the problem is on my end or Audacity's

Thanks

You have a MacBook Pro, right? MacBook Pro machines do not have PPC (Power PC) chips. They have Intel chips.

Oh. wait. You're not the original poster. See what happens when you hijack a thread?

Do an Apple-About This Mac. The chipset listed there has to match the Audacity version.

Koz

It's a PPC G4 867

It seems like I downloaded the right version of Audacity, far as I can tell…

Since I'm running a very old version of Audacity, I decided to upgrade to 1.2.6 to see what troubles I find. I'm not running Leopard, however, I'm running 10.4.11 Tiger on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4.

audacity-macosx-ppc-1.2.6.dmg

The install went OK. I put the lame, vst enabler, and plugins in the right folders and it all opens in the right order. I may still get burned when I actually try to edit, but as near as I can tell, everything went OK.

So the only big difference is Leopard. I would search or Google with "leopard" as one of the search terms. I know there was one comment about install problems on one of the Mac Audacity forums, but you will probably find it faster than I will.

...because I'm trying to make dinner and type at the same time.

Koz

I found a post from someone who had the same error message here: http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=8052

But he was running Audacity 1.3. There were no replies to his post. The remainder of the thread seemed to be mostly flames.

I downloaded Audacity when I had MAC OS 10.3.9, however I recently bought Leapord so I am now running MAC OS 10.5, and Audacity will not open. When I click to open it it says, "You cannot open the application "Audacity" because it is not supported on this architecture." Also the icon has a circle with a line throuch it over the image of the headphones. I have concluded that the newest version of Audacity is not supported by MAC OS 10.5 and probably only 10.4, Please update! (12/1/2007, Version: 1.3.3)

That's all I found on the web today. But, your post raised one point, my download didn't come with LAME LIB or instructions to install it. I do have it on my 10.3.9. Mini where Audacity 1.2.3 runs great.

So, I installed 1.2.3 & LAME LIB on the PowerBook - same error message "not supported on this architecture" I'm starting to think that other guy's right, that Audacity just isn't Leopard compatible. That would suck. I've found compatible version of all my other legacy apps (some went back 10 years). I don't think I have a substitute for Audacity. & I use it all the time.

What folder *does* LAME go in? Maybe that's the problem. On my mini, it's just at the root of my startup drive. Actually I have LAME and LameLib-Carbon-3. I don't know if I need both or which.

Thanks for all your help so far. It looks like this is the only resource, btw.

I think it's a lot more basic than that. Audacity runs under Leopard just fine--with an Intel computer--not an older PowerPC.

I have been avoiding upgrading to Leopard because two of my three machines are PowerPC and I'm sure as dirt going to run into the same problems you have. Any way you can go back to Tiger? Did you upgrade to get one of the Leopard features, or because it was cool?

Remembering also that this isn't Adobe, AutoDesk, or Microsoft. This is a rag-tag collection of volunteer programmers around the world trying desperately to bring out Audacity 1.4 on all platforms. I, but you in particular, are running two release version old software on obsolete machines. People leave bug reports all the time because it makes them feel good, not because anything in the older versions will ever get fixed--or more accurately, it will get fixed if you volunteer to fix it.

Is that enough ranting?

I can do more.

Koz