I can get audacity installed to open up
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity 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.
I can get audacity installed to open up
I downloaded the file...copied it to applications. It shows up on my dock. But I can't click anything that will get it to open up. Do I need to also download some of the Optional downloads ... Plug-ins...Lame MP3 since I'm wanting to record to MP3... What am I doing wrong. I'm not real savvy with downloads so I assuming I've downloaded correctly. Can someone help me.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: I can get audacity installed to open up
You can also launch Audacity from the Applications folder in Finder.coolimage wrote:I downloaded the file...copied it to applications. It shows up on my dock. But I can't click anything that will get it to open up.
If Audacity is already running with no project windows open, click the Audacity icon in the Dock then click File > New on the "Audacity" menu at the top of the computer screen.
You can download the optional LAME MP3 encoding library by following these instructions:coolimage wrote: Do I need to also download some of the Optional downloads ... Plug-ins...Lame MP3 since I'm wanting to record to MP3.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... ml#maclame .
Gale
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Re: I can't get audacity installed to open up
Nothing happens when I hit the icon on the doc or from applications from Finder. I'm thinking I haven't installed it correctly. This is what I did. I hit download from Audacity Mac... then clicked on the download folder when audacity finished downloading and it open up a file folder and a text file folder . I clicked on the Audacity file folder and copied to applications. It shows up... but nothing is active. What stepped have I missed.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: I can't get audacity installed to open up
From your description you have installed Audacity correctly. Does the Audacity menu bar at the top of the screen appear?coolimage wrote:Nothing happens when I hit the icon on the doc or from applications from Finder. I'm thinking I haven't installed it correctly. This is what I did. I hit download from Audacity Mac... then clicked on the download folder when audacity finished downloading and it open up a file folder and a text file folder . I clicked on the Audacity file folder and copied to applications. It shows up... but nothing is active. What stepped have I missed.
You could try any of these.
Open Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor. Select Audacity if it's listed and choose "Quit Process".
Follow the steps here in case Audacity is hanging due to Audio Unit or VST effects:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audio ... ch_or_hang
If that does not help, Quit Process again in Activity Monitor then search your computer for the file audacity-lock-your user name. Substitute what your actual user name is for "your user name", for example, audacity-lock-coolimage. If the file is found, delete it.
After that, it could be that Mac permissions are messed up. Try Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and repair permissions.
Gale
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