Audacity won't launch… well, not really.

[Klauss]

Hi, I'm having trouble launching Audacity (2.0.0 and 2.0.1 likewise).
I'm using OSX Lion on a Macbook Pro
Audacity bounces in dock for about a minute, then appears as active upon application scrolling (but not in dock). Then I get a window concerning a plugin I need to register (VST Surround Zone). I "Done" that and Audacity now appears to be active in dock, and there is an Audacity menu bar, but with no menus (!).
After a while (about 6 minutes in total) I do get my old Audacity back but it is very unstable and crashes rapidly

I do imagine it has something to do with the darned plugin. Someone can help ?

Klauss

[steve]

It could be a problem with the plug-in.

As you can launch the old Audacity version, open that and disable VST effects in Preferences. Close Audacity, then try launching the new version of Audacity. Does it open now?

[Klauss]

Hi, thanks for your answer.
No neither version works…

[Gale Andrews]

Try giving Audacity a .cfg file that disables VST and Audio Unit plug-ins.

In Finder, Go > Go to Folder, type ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ .

Open audacity cfg to edit it, or if there is no audacity.cfg, create a new text file in TextEdit and save it as audacity.cfg. The content of audacity.cfg should be only this:

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NewPrefsInitialized=1
[AudioUnits]
Enable=0
[VST]
Enable=0
Rescan=0 

Now try launching Audacity.



Gale

[Klauss]

Thank you Gale !
That worked out perfectly !!

My file read as follows :

NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=1.3.7
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
SnapTo=0
DefaultOpenType=All files
DefaultOpenPath=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop
NewImportingSession=1
[Locale]
Language=en
[Directories]
TempDir=/var/folders/ff/3ng24xc48xl84f006s6d7t1r0000gp/T/audacity-Cucuso
PresetsDir=/Users/Cucuso/Library/Application Support/audacity/presets
[GUI]
ShowSplashScreen=0
[GUI/ToolBars]
[GUI/ToolBars/Control]
Dock=0
Order=0
Show=1
X=1623
Y=508
W=257
H=57
[GUI/ToolBars/Tools]
Dock=1
Order=1
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=94
H=55
MultiToolActive=0
[GUI/ToolBars/Meter]
Dock=1
Order=2
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=275
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Mixer]
Dock=1
Order=3
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=501
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Edit]
Dock=1
Order=4
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=377
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Transcription]
Dock=1
Order=5
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=140
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Selection]
Dock=2
Order=1
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=586
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Device]
Dock=0
Order=0
Show=0
X=4
Y=22
W=536
H=27
[RecentFiles]
file1=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop/Mastersample.aup
file2=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop/10 FREE 160312.mp3
file3=/Users/Cucuso/Music/ MUSICA/Nirvana - The Very Best/17 - Rape Me.mp3
file4=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop/ChantierCham.wav
file5=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0060.WAV
file6=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0052.WAV
file7=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0058.WAV
file8=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0057.WAV
file9=/Users/Cucuso/Documents/Cours/ Bondy/Arts du son/2011-2012/Sons2/ZOOM0056.WAV
[Window]
X=4
Y=22
Width=1436
Height=878
Maximized=1
[TagsEditor]
x=281
y=193
width=503
height=411
[Export]
Format=WAV
Path=/Users/Cucuso/Desktop
[MP3]
MP3LibPath=/usr/local/lib/audacity/libmp3lame.dylib
[CsPresets]
Norm_AmpDbGain=1
Norm_RemoveDcOffset=1
Norm_Level=0
EQFilterLength=4001
EQCurveName=custom
EQLin=0
EQdBMin=-30
EQdBMax=30
EQDrawMode=1
EQInterp=0
[FileFormats]
MP3RateMode=3
MP3Bitrate=192
MP3VarMode=0
MP3ChannelMode=0

Which was quite far from your version…
I'll keep your contents at hand.
Thanks again,

Klauss

[Gale Andrews]

That worked out perfectly !!

Thanks for posting the old file. I don't see anything obviously "bad" in it, so the problem was probably an Audio Unit or VST plug-in (more likely a new system Audio Unit). .

If you want to find out which plug-in caused the problem, I'm afraid it's a question of enabling Audacity's Audio Unit or VST support again and taking plug-ins away from where Audacity looks for them until it launches again.


Gale