Help for Audacity on Windows.
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.
Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the
1.2.x and
1.3.x forums.
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steve
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by steve » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:22 am
To avoid confusion about version numbers there is a guideline given in the pink box at the top of the page:
Please state which version of Windows you are using, the exact three-section version of Audacity from Help > About Audacity
Regardless of the reputation of mirror sites, we are not able to guarantee the authenticity of downloads from any site other than from our official download partner.
lmstearn wrote:The actual file does not download, sorry.
I've just checked and it downloaded perfectly for me. If you can describe precisely what you clicked on, then I can check it out.
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by cyrano » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:39 am
lmstearn wrote:And Cnet is (and has been for years) a reputable source for files, and AFAIK they do not publish material unless it has the explicit permission of the author.
Buuut, as using IE11 on Win 8.1, I did first try the official site. The actual file does not download, sorry.
Cnet isn't a reliable source at all. As most of these downoad sites, they tried making money from other people's work, by wrapping their programs in an adware tool. See what the EFF has to say about it:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/d ... e-it-right
Of course, they had to stop, just like most of the other sites, under massive user protest.
If IE11 isn't downloading, have you tried right clicking on the link and choosing "save linked file as..."?
You could also try a different browser that hasn't got that bug.
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:24 pm
cyrano wrote:If IE11 isn't downloading, have you tried right clicking on the link and choosing "save linked file as..."?
Just to be clear, right-click will only work on the FossHub site, not on download links on audacityteam.org, which merely point to FossHub.
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by Gale Andrews » Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:28 pm
lmstearn wrote:2.1.2.0 is not a genuine version number either. The actual version number can be found by selecting "About Audacity" from the Audacity "Help" menu.
I'd guess that you are using "Audacity 2.1.2" but if it says "2.1.2.0" in "About Audacity", then the version that you are using has been tampered with.
My understanding is, having also (http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1089681/Bigger-Directories) published software, that right click
Properties/Details of the executable file is where the correct versions are displayed.
That is correct.
As long as you don't see it in Help > About Audacity..., 2.1.2.0 is the correct full version number which you can see in the audacity.exe properties or by hovering the mouse over audacity.exe.
The "0" comes from #define AUDACITY_MODLEVEL 0 in src/Audacity.h.
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