Help for Audacity on macOS.
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.
Please state which version of macOS you are using,
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.
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Robert J. H.
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by Robert J. H. » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:33 am
audio_pete wrote:audio_pete's pluuuleeelese notes:
Enhancements
An earlier version of Audacity created custom metadata chunks for AIFF files to be used in high end audio editors.
These additions created issues for non-IOS iPods, a Windows IFF file reader and some older versions of Mac audio editors. These applications tried to read the additions as standard AIFF files but could not. Changes to the structure of the new chunks allow these applications to process the new AIFF files.
the way I see it YMMV
Adios amigos
You're right in that the current release notes do not reflect the issue in its entirety. But we have this ~120 posts long thread that tells the truth.
Who knows if not one will produce a docu for the history channel in a hundred years? Applology, Part Two - Pads, Pods and Phones under the big little i.
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:44 pm
Robert J. H. wrote:audio_pete wrote:audio_pete's pluuuleeelese notes:
Enhancements
An earlier version of Audacity created custom metadata chunks for AIFF files to be used in high end audio editors.
These additions created issues for non-IOS iPods, a Windows IFF file reader and some older versions of Mac audio editors. These applications tried to read the additions as standard AIFF files but could not. Changes to the structure of the new chunks allow these applications to process the new AIFF files.
the way I see it YMMV
To be clear, Audacity was following the standard you linked to (we were not adding anything). It was old iPod and buggy apps that were not following the standard. Those buggy apps (or rather you) convinced us to add a space that the user did not enter in their metadata in order to appease the buggy apps.
Gale
