Audacity not working with Mac OS X

[justbob_3377]

Background:
I have been using Audacity - in Windows XP - for the past year and LOVED it!!

Then I recently decided to switch to Mac, and now I am having more problems than I ever did with Windows?!

I cannot get Audacity to work on my two new Macs.

Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MM21.009A.B00
SMC Version: 1.19f2

System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.5.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD

Audacity Background:
I have tried installing two different versions of Audacity:
- Mac OS X 1.2.5 (Intel)
- Mac OS X 1.3.5 (Universal Binary)

and in both cases, Audacity always crashes after I use it for a while, ranging from 5 minutes to 5 hours.

I don't have these issues in MS Windows and I'm pretty irritated that my new MacBook and Mac Mini are causing these issues. (If I can't use Audacity in OS X, then there isn't a convincing reason to use Macintosh in my world...)

Someone PLEASE help me figure out what is wrong?!


Just Bob

[steve]

What is the default sample bit depth you are using (Edit menu > Preferences > Quality Tab)
There was previously a problem on Macs when using 24 bit - this is supposed to be fixed now, but it may be worth checking.

Hopefully a Mac user will come along and help out here? ....anyone?

[zen_city]

I am having similar problems. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it crashes. Even when it doesn't crash sometimes a saved file won't reopen properly. I have osx 10.4.11 (tiger) on a macbook pro. What sort of error messages are you getting? What are you setting as your "sound in" setting?

[Shmoolie]

I've been using Audacity 1.2.6 PPC for a year. But this problem just started happening. When I select "monitor input" there's a pause for a few seconds, then a beachball, then it crashes. If I unplug/replug my firewire audio interface, and then launch Audacity and select monitor input - then the crash is immediate. The crash report is "sigbus" on Thread 4 and Console calls it a bus error. This feature used to work fine for me, and I haven't changed anything about my audio software or hardware in the meantime.

BTW: I got the same crash with a newly-downloaded Umixit version. Fixing permissions & running maintenance scripts didn't help, either.

Here's the report for Thread 4 (with a beachball)
Thread 4 Crashed:
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001ffdac 0x1000 + 2092460
2 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f97cc 0x1000 + 2066380
3 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f9874 0x1000 + 2066548
4 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787efc AudioConverterChain::CallInputProc(unsigned long) + 172
5 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787c10 AudioConverterChain::FillBufferFromInputProc(unsigned long*, CABufferList*) + 160
6 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787b54 BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes(unsigned long, unsigned long&, CABufferList const*&) + 224
7 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x947d9c68 BlockCopyConverter::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 96
8 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787730 BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 336
9 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x947878a0 AudioConverterChain::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 144
10 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787730 BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 336
11 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9479b5b8 AudioConverterFillBuffer + 292
12 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f9a30 0x1000 + 2066992
13 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f9c14 0x1000 + 2067476
14 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90df14b8 HP_IOProc::Call(AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioBufferList*) + 328
15 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90df1144 IOA_Device::CallIOProcs(AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioTimeStamp const&) + 304
16 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90df0ff8 HP_IOThread::PerformIO(AudioTimeStamp const&) + 552
17 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90def9c8 HP_IOThread::WorkLoop() + 812
18 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90def688 HP_IOThread::ThreadEntry(HP_IOThread*) + 16
19 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90dddc84 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 108
20 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9686c65c _pthread_start + 320
21 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0

Thread 4 crashed with PPC Thread State 32:
srr0: 0x00000000 srr1: 0x4200f030 dar: 0x24c72010 dsisr: 0x42000000
r0: 0x00000200 r1: 0xf02064d0 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0x009d3000
r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x009d1800 r6: 0x00000001 r7: 0x00000200
r8: 0x05726870 r9: 0x05726870 r10: 0x05726870 r11: 0x05726870
r12: 0x00000000 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0xf020678c
r20: 0xf0206818 r21: 0x05725940 r22: 0xf0206730 r23: 0x05726bf0
r24: 0x05726110 r25: 0x00000000 r26: 0x00000000 r27: 0xffffffce
r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0xf0206788 r30: 0xf02064d0 r31: 0x001ffcfc
cr: 0x24002224 xer: 0x00000004 lr: 0x001ffdac ctr: 0x00000000
vrsave: 0x00000000

Here's the report for the crash without a beachball The differences I noticed are in R5, 8, 8, 11, 21, and 24. I have no idea what this means, of course.

Thread 4 Crashed:
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001ffdac 0x1000 + 2092460
2 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f97cc 0x1000 + 2066380
3 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f9874 0x1000 + 2066548
4 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787efc AudioConverterChain::CallInputProc(unsigned long) + 172
5 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787c10 AudioConverterChain::FillBufferFromInputProc(unsigned long*, CABufferList*) + 160
6 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787b54 BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes(unsigned long, unsigned long&, CABufferList const*&) + 224
7 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x947d9c68 BlockCopyConverter::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 96
8 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787730 BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 336
9 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x947878a0 AudioConverterChain::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 144
10 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x94787730 BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 336
11 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9479b5b8 AudioConverterFillBuffer + 292
12 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f9a30 0x1000 + 2066992
13 net.sourceforge.audacity 0x001f9c14 0x1000 + 2067476
14 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90df14b8 HP_IOProc::Call(AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioBufferList*) + 328
15 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90df1144 IOA_Device::CallIOProcs(AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioTimeStamp const&, AudioTimeStamp const&) + 304
16 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90df0ff8 HP_IOThread::PerformIO(AudioTimeStamp const&) + 552
17 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90def9c8 HP_IOThread::WorkLoop() + 812
18 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90def688 HP_IOThread::ThreadEntry(HP_IOThread*) + 16
19 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90dddc84 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 108
20 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9686c65c _pthread_start + 320
21 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0

Thread 4 crashed with PPC Thread State 32:
srr0: 0x00000000 srr1: 0x4200f030 dar: 0x248b7010 dsisr: 0x42000000
r0: 0x00000200 r1: 0xf02064d0 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0x009d0800
r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x009d9a00 r6: 0x00000001 r7: 0x00000200
r8: 0x057249f0 r9: 0x057249f0 r10: 0x057249f0 r11: 0x057249f0
r12: 0x00000000 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0xf020678c
r20: 0xf0206818 r21: 0x057261c0 r22: 0xf0206730 r23: 0x05727570
r24: 0x007f4220 r25: 0x00000000 r26: 0x00000000 r27: 0xffffffce
r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0xf0206788 r30: 0xf02064d0 r31: 0x001ffcfc
cr: 0x24002224 xer: 0x00000004 lr: 0x001ffdac ctr: 0x00000000
vrsave: 0x00000000