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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scosio
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- Joined: Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:43 pm
- Operating System: OS X 10.10 Yosemite
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by scosio » Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:38 pm
Hello Audacity users,
I don't know what I did but all of a sudden Audacity will not record on my iMac. It used to, and now it won't.
iMac 10.14.6
Audacity 2.3.3
I'm receiving a signal in System Preferences > Sound
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The input on Audacity is set to my audio adapter. GarageBand is receiving a signal and is able to record but I prefer to use Audacity. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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daparte
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:13 pm
- Operating System: macOS 10.14 Mojave
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by daparte » Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:46 pm
I have the sane problem. Could you solve this problem?
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Stokestack
- Posts: 9
- Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:16 pm
- Operating System: Please select
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by Stokestack » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:26 pm
The Mac version appears to be broken for recording at the moment.
I've tried version 2.3.3 on two Macs running Mac OS 10.15.4, one with a USB mic and another with the built-in laptop mic. Other apps see and record the microphone signals, but Audacity doesn't. The mics are shown and selectable in Audacity's Input collection, but the meters don't show any signal.
I checked the Security & Privacy settings for the microphone input, and Audacity is not shown as ever requesting mic access.
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steve
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- Operating System: Linux *buntu
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by steve » Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:13 pm
For Mojave, see this post:
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=103573
For Catalina, see this post:
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=107162
The Catalina problem has been resolved in the development version of Audacity, which is due to be released next month all being well.
