Audacity 2,0,1 on Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8

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Audacity 2,0,1 on Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Post by wwayneottinger » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:26 pm

The old version of Audacity quit working (recording) so I removed in and installed 2.0.1, Still will not record, set it up for external usb mic, which shows OK.

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Re: Audacity 2,0,1 on Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:55 pm

If you attached the mic after launching Audacity, use Transport > Rescan Audio Devices.

Also see:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User: ... ut_devices .


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Re: Audacity 2,0,1 on Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Post by wwayneottinger » Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:36 pm

I installed the mic before I opened Audacity, the mic shows OK in Audacity.

I also copied all the dmg files and pasted them in a new folder I made for Audacity in the Applications folder.

It opens fine, it just will not record.

Where do I find "Transport" to rescan the mic's?

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Re: Audacity 2,0,1 on Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Post by Gale Andrews » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:13 am

wwayneottinger wrote:I installed the mic before I opened Audacity, the mic shows OK in Audacity.

I also copied all the dmg files and pasted them in a new folder I made for Audacity in the Applications folder.
OK, if you mean you copied all the files that were in the dmg.
wwayneottinger wrote:Where do I find "Transport" to rescan the mic's?
In the Audacity menu bar which will be at the top of the OS X window when you are in the Audacity program.

Is there "error opening sound device" when you select the USB mic as Input Device in Audacity Device Toolbar? Or do you just record silence?

The mic will probably be called USB Audio CODEC. This is Device Toolbar:
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