Audacity Forum

I've got Puppy Linux 5.2 which I'm mega happy abut, but when I downloaded the Audacity (1.3.11 beta) suited to this distro. I could not in this version of Audacity find click-track. It used to be
Genarate -> click track
But this option was not there. Is there a new way to genres klick track in 1.3 audacity or is there something wrong with my version?

Mikkel

mimeini wrote:It used to be
Genarate -> click track

Yes, that's where it should be.
Do you have any Nyquist plug-ins available?
I don't remember exactly which plug-ins were included in 1.3.11, but you should have some of these:

Effects:
High Pass Filter
Low Pass Filter
Vocoder

Generate:
Click track
Risset drum
Pluck

Analyze:
Silence Finder

Check in "Edit menu > Preferences > Effects" that Nyquist plug-ins are not disabled. If they are, enable them and restart Audacity.

Hi
thanks for the reply. I have checked and all the features you list, is missing in my edition. But when I check the Nyquist plug-ins they are enabled.

Mikkel

How did you install Audacity? Did you build it from the source code, or install a PET, or something else?

I installed it from puppies package handling system so it's a pet package that is downloaded. I'm considering building one myself from source. Otherwise, should I try if I can run the previous version of audacity which I used in Puppy Linux 4. 12. It could in fact generate a click track and many of the other effects you mention.

Mikkel

I think it would be worth contacting the maintainers of Puppy as it sounds like their build of Audacity is broken. I suspect that when they built the package that they checked basic functionality but probably didn't check some of the more in-depth features such as Nyquist effects. If you do contact them, you could urge them to build a package for Audacity 1.3.13 which has just been released.

I don't know how easy it is to build applications on Puppy, but I would suspect that, because Puppy is such as small, lightweight (and cute) distro, you would need to install a lot of other stuff first. Puppy is great as a lightweight OS, but it wouldn't be my first choice for building on.

Thanks for the advice to contact the puppy administrators. As for building from source code it is a little different. Sometimes puppy is super easy to build on. Also easier than ubuntu as I see it. Other times you will be caught as you tell in a sea of ​​missing dependencies. But there is something about that the new puppy has great potential states to install the deb packages so it was perhaps also a way to go.

mikkel

Please keep us informed on this.
The best solution would be (assuming that the problem is a broken build) for the Puppy developers to fix the pet package so I'm hopeful that they will find time to look at the problem. Failing that, we may be able to help, but a major stumbling block is that I don't know of any other forum users that use Puppy.

I had a try at puppy a few years ago when I was working on a linux embedded project. Puppy was still taking its first steps then. I ended up working with a stripped down debian.

I can try to install puppy on a virtual machine and check it's audacity version and see if it's buggy or not...

I've got myself a virtual box image of PuppyLinux 5.2.0 from http://virtualboxes.org

I can confirm all the plugins from the generate and effect menus are missing. I downloaded/installed Audacity (version 1.3.11) from Puppy's quickpet package manager.

This is not the latest Puppy release though... according to the official website the latest release is 5.2.5. I'm sure if they've got a different or newer version of Audacity for that release.

I'll try to check if the plugins are just missing from the package or misplaced or something else...