Audacity Forum

In attempting to download Audacity I ended up with finding it running as an Application - which I only discovered when I tried to open it on the desktop of my Mac 10.6.8 via a zip for a second time. I then transferred this Application to Trash and downloaded Audacity again via audacity-macosx-ub-2-1.0.3.dmg but nothing I do will allow me to open Audacity and achieve a Project Window on the desktop. The Audacity icon which has appeared in the dock brings up nothing on the desktop when double-clicked. I am a relative novice at this and all I want to do is transfer some old vinyl records and some cassette tapes to my computer and from there to an iPod much as I do with CDs using iTunes. Although I have the correct cables from the Tape deck phones outlet to the inline jack on the back of the computer I can't get any music playing through the computer into the computer speakers either. Any advice from those more experienced in this field would be most gratefully received.

foxyface14 wrote:In attempting to download Audacity I ended up with finding it running as an Application - which I only discovered when I tried to open it on the desktop of my Mac 10.6.8 via a zip for a second time. I then transferred this Application to Trash and downloaded Audacity again via audacity-macosx-ub-2-1.0.3.dmg but nothing I do will allow me to open Audacity and achieve a Project Window on the desktop. The Audacity icon which has appeared in the dock brings up nothing on the desktop when double-clicked.

Drag all the Audacity folders to Trash and unmount any Audacity DMG's that are mounted.

Then download Audacity from here http://audacityteam.org/download/mac and be sure to follow the installation instructions mentioned there.

If there are still problems after that please let us know.

foxyface14 wrote:I am a relative novice at this and all I want to do is transfer some old vinyl records and some cassette tapes to my computer and from there to an iPod much as I do with CDs using iTunes. Although I have the correct cables from the Tape deck phones outlet to the inline jack on the back of the computer I can't get any music playing through the computer into the computer speakers either.

OS X does not allow inputs to play in the speakers.

You can try Transport > Hardware Playthrough or Transport > Software Playthrough in Audacity.

If neither let you listen to the input, try LineIn from http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ .


Gale

You can try Transport > Hardware Playthrough or Transport > Software Playthrough in Audacity.

That works for me on all my Macs. Sometimes I forget and leave that running when I'm trying to record a microphone. That's not a good combination.
Koz