Audacity crashes whenever I use my external mic

[Gale Andrews]

On the other hand, the newest version of Audacity has fixed a bunch of problems that I'd been having: crash after a long recording session (no data lost, but some time) or after a period of inactivity when the mac had gone to sleep; and alert windows on reopening, and logs created (which I could never find) etc etc etc.
But after upgrading to the newest version, none of that!!

I think most of that improvement was due to upgrading to a newer version of wxWidgets. We knew about those crashes but most of us have Mac Minis and could not reproduce them.

However on my Mac Mini (only 4 GB RAM and ~2 GHz) Audacity dialogues like How to get Help and open/save dialogues are slower to open in 2.1.2 than in 2.1.1, and show black content while loading. Also I don't see the Audacity open/save dialogues starting small and getting larger that some people are complaining about (I think it's a Mac "effect" that the new version of wxWidgets now supports).

Do I assume you have a more powerful Mac than I?


Gale

[moosicle]

Are you connecting through an adapter to a Thunderbolt port?

Which OS-X? I'm typing on a Mini under 10.9.5. I use Audacity 2.1.0, even though it's not current.

Koz

Hi Koz
I'm using 10.11.1 OSX
My yeti plugs in to my laptop via the USB port
I tried with the headphones, and tried to play music on my laptop. The sound just comes out of the external speakers on my laptop, but I do hear a quiet static-y sound from the earphones when I plug them into the yeti.

[moosicle]

I have an external blue yeti mic (connects thru USB) and whenever I try to record with it, Audacity crashes after a second (you see the recording bar trying to move, freezes, and then everything crashes) . :/ I switched to the built-in mic on my laptop and everything is fine.

What version of Audacity? See the pink panel at the top of the page.

Have you reset the System Management Controller? See if there is something here that helps http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 90#p297590.

You can also post the Audacity crash report from /Applications/Utilities/Console.app.


Gale

Hi Gale
I've opened up the console app but how do I post the crash report... and how do I know which one is the crash report? and how do I post it? Should I take a screenshot?

[Gale Andrews]

I'm using 10.11.1 OSX
My yeti plugs in to my laptop via the USB port
I tried with the headphones, and tried to play music on my laptop. The sound just comes out of the external speakers on my laptop, but I do hear a quiet static-y sound from the earphones when I plug them into the yeti.

If you want to play audio from Audacity to the Yeti, you must choose Yeti as the playback device in Audacity's Device Toolbar.

If you want to play audio from iTunes or Finder to the Yeti, you must open System Preferences, then Sound, and choose Yeti as the playback device.


Gale

[Gale Andrews]

I have an external blue yeti mic (connects thru USB) and whenever I try to record with it, Audacity crashes after a second (you see the recording bar trying to move, freezes, and then everything crashes) . :/ I switched to the built-in mic on my laptop and everything is fine.

Have you reset the System Management Controller? See if there is something here that helps http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 90#p297590.

You can also post the Audacity crash report from /Applications/Utilities/Console.app.


Gale

Hi Gale
I've opened up the console app but how do I post the crash report... and how do I know which one is the crash report? and how do I post it? Should I take a screenshot?

In Console.app, look in the tree on the left. Scroll down and look under FILES for /Library/Logs (not ~/Library/Logs, though sometimes hang reports may be there).

Double-click that /Library/Logs line to expand it. In the expanded list under /Library/Logs, find "Diagnostic Reports" and double-click to expand that line. You should now see the Audacity crash reports listed in the tree, latest crash last.

You can now right-click the line in the tree for that report and choose "Reveal in Finder", or (with the line for that report still selected) use File > "Save a Copy As" in Console's File menu.

See here for how to attach files to a Forum post: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=64936.


Gale