Audacity Forum

noraa wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:21 pm

You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command:
open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity

Very useful insight there noraa

Once I'd found out where Apple hide the Terminal app

On first use it asked told me that audacity wanted to access the mic - and did I want to allow it (just as in 1.14 Mojave)

But on second on subsequent launches by this method it just launches.

Also, if I leave it active (black dot) in the bottom dock I can just relaunch from the Audacity logo.

noraa wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:21 pm

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:06 pm

Have you tried making a Desktop alias to the Audacity executable? If so, does that work for you?

Awesome, that works!

So how did you make that trick work noraa

Thanks for these valuable insights, much appreciated.

Peter.

See this Forum announcement Audacity under macOS 10.15 Catalina

And many thanks to noraa for posting that workaround

Peter

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:34 pm

See this Forum announcement Audacity under macOS 10.15 Catalina

And many thanks to noraa for posting that workaround

Peter

Hey Peter,

I'm so glad my post was able to help people! That's awesome, as I literally joined these forums just to post that.

In any case, I noticed in your announcement that there's a typo in "Step 2." It should state "2.) Open Terminal.app" not "2.) Open Finder.app"

I'm wondering if that may be throwing some forum users for a bit of a loop.

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:12 pm

noraa wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:21 pm

You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command:
open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity

Very useful insight there noraa

Once I'd found out where Apple hide the Terminal app

On first use it asked told me that audacity wanted to access the mic - and did I want to allow it (just as in 1.14 Mojave)

But on second on subsequent launches by this method it just launches.

Also, if I leave it active (black dot) in the bottom dock I can just relaunch from the Audacity logo.

noraa wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:21 pm

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:06 pm

Have you tried making a Desktop alias to the Audacity executable? If so, does that work for you?

Awesome, that works!

So how did you make that trick work noraa

Thanks for these valuable insights, much appreciated.

Peter.

So making a desktop alias of the Audacity executable requires you to open up the contents of the Audacity.app package. To do so:

• Right click (or two finger click, depending on how you have your mouse/trackpad setup) on Audacity.app (which, in the Finder, is essentially the app itself).
• In the right-click menu, select "Show Package Contents." This will open a new window with the contents of the Audacity.app package, and it looks just like any other folder.
• in the package contents folder, navigate to the "Contents" folder, and then the "MacOS" folder.• In the MacOS folder, there is an item simply labeled "Audacity" with NO file extension. This is the Audacity Unix executable.
• Drag this file to the desktop while holding down the "Control" key. This will make a shortcut of the executable that can be simply double clicked on.
• When the exe is opened, Terminal will open first, and the Audacity will open.

There is one big caveat to using the above method: In order to open up an Audacity project, it must be opened from within Audacity AFTER you open Audacity following the above methods. If you just double click on an Audacity project, it will open Audacity as normal, and things just won't work properly.

Not sure if this is allowed in the forums or not, but I created a really simply "Automator" script that you can simply double-click on to open Audacity and have it working. Because Automator allows you to save these scripts as an application, you can actually pin the script to the Dock just like any other program.

I'd be more than happy to throw it up on a file sharing site and post the link here, but like I said, not sure if sharing files like that is allowed here or not.

noraa wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:25 am

In any case, I noticed in your announcement that there's a typo in "Step 2." It should state "2.) Open Terminal.app" not "2.) Open Finder.app"

Good catch I've fixed that

And I fixed on our Website too:
https://www.audacityteam.org/macos-10-1 ... -audacity/

Many thanks,
Peter

The workaround doesn't seem to work on my MacBook. What do I do?

speedpitchtempo wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:00 pm

The workaround doesn't seem to work on my MacBook. What do I do?

In what way does it "not work"?

steve wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:01 pm

In what way does it "not work"?

It keeps saying "Bad CPU type".

speedpitchtempo wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:04 pm

It keeps saying "Bad CPU type".

Where did you get Audacity from?
If you downloaded it, approximately when did you download it?