How to Upgrade to 2.0.4

[BuffoBill]

Back in January 2015, I wrote regarding some of these similar issues regarding Audacity. (See above thread.) And now I am a little unclear if I even upgraded Audacity at that time or not? At that time I was grappling with the Win. 8.1 upgrade, and to date Audacity has been working on all my files. I will explain further below to attempt to illustrate my current dilemma. But my first question is regarding the upcoming Windows 10 upgrade. I am currently running Win. 8.1 on my laptop, but there are advantages and disadvantages to upgrading to the Free Win. 10. First because it is Free, but also other security concerns, as well as Op. System improvements, etc. I am currently running Audacity 2.0.3 free beta version, but I am concerned about backward compatibility of previous recorded files. Now... this is where it is confusing for even me? When I opened Audacity and clicked on Help/About Audacity... it says I’m running version 2.0.3, however... when I look in my “Download File Directory”, I see two separate file folders with setup executable files for Audacity 2.0.4 and 2.0.6? So... am I running the later versions, or am I running 2.0.3? I thought I recalled upgrading about six months ago, but the Audacity application is telling me something different? Is there another way to confirm what version I truly am running? When I look in the Win. 8.1 Op. Sys. Program files folder for Audacity, there are two Audacity folders in the directory? The root file folder and audacity.exe file that the properties say “Created: Friday May 31, 2013 9:34:20 AM.” Then their is a secondary Audacity folder with an audacity.exe file that the properties say, “Created: Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 1:42:45 PM.” Do I need to do a complete uninstall and re-install? And if so... how will that affect my both my current files and future files with regards to the Windows 10 upgrade? Microsoft has the upgrade scheduled to roll-out in July next month, so I would really appreciate resolving this issue ASAP.

Second, I recently accidentally reset my EQ files to defaults and I had three files that I had created with the “Draw” feature. I had two of the .xml files backed up, but one of them I did not. I am assuming that I will need to manually recreate that file again and then back it up like the other two, since I was not able to find it with a Op. Sys. search unless there is an obscure temp file location that the file might be located within Audacity?

Thirdly, I was hoping that Audacity would support up to 8-10 simultaneous multi-track recording inputs. On the current version of Audacity I am running, I can see that I can record only two input tracks simultaneously. If I were to upgrade to the pay version of Audacity, would I be able to multi-track record 8-10 inputs? And if I were to upgrade to the paid version, how would that affect my other previous version files?

So... those are my three concerns...

Thank you.
Buffo

[kozikowski]

There is no "paid" version of Audacity and those versions are out of date and no longer supported.

You can get Audacity 2.1.0 from here.

http://web.audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

[kozikowski]

On the Windows version, the installer should ask you if you want to reset all the preferences and settings. You should say yes.

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

Please consider writing in shorter paragraphs.

You are currently running whatever version is given at Help > About Audacity... .

If you have installed multiple versions of Audacity, you should go to the Control Panel in Windows and uninstall all of them before installing 2.1.0 with "Reset Preferences" enabled, as Koz suggested.

Audacity does not support Windows 10 Preview. Some users say Audacity works OK on it, but it is your risk. Once Windows 10 is released, we will work to see that Audacity supports it.

The Audacity EQ files are in Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\ . You can type

Code: Select all

%appdata%

in the File Explorer address bar to go to AppData\Roaming.

Audacity on Windows does not support more than two-channel recording on most hardware. See Multichannel Recording - Audacity Wiki. Choosing the Windows WASAPI host in Device Toolbar in Audacity 2.1.0 might allow your Roland to record more than two channels, otherwise you would need to compile Audacity with WDM-KS or ASIO support.

Only ASIO would guarantee multi-channel recording would work.


Gale