You may need to grant Audacity permission to access to your microphone if your system is set to deny access. Some post-installation steps that you may want or need to do, depending on your requirements and how your system is set up: The instructions that you have linked to only cover “installation”. There’s many “post installation” steps that you “may” need to do. In particular, do we no longer have to route the Mac output from the soundcard TO Audacity? “Installing” Audacity on macOS should be very easy - just follow the steps in the macOS section of

My editing/splicing skills are getting pretty sharp, but in the meantime, Silence Finder and followup “edit labels” are invaluable tools for locating the dropouts. Re-sampling from the output of the D/A converter, but it works very well.) and there are occasions when I encounter dropouts. I believe there is a workaround via the installation of a special library, but why discard it in the first place? I record internet streaming (Yes, I know. Related: I understand that Audacity has discarded the Silence Finder utility since 2.4.2.

Did I miss a more up-to date Mac OS installation guide? In fact, the installation page in the manual refers to soundflower for redirection of desktop output, while I discarded that for iShowU Audio Capture back in the day. I’ve been scanning the forum for issues with more current versions of Audacity and more current Mac OS (I have a vague idea that any Mac I buy will have a different chip) and I seem to see lots of problems but no overall installation guidance for newbies. My Mac is vintage 2015 so it’s geriatric and I am bracing for the inevitable fatal crash. If Audacity is installed somewhere else than /Applications/Audacity, change the path to reflect where the Audacity folder is.I am using Audacity 2.4.2 on Mac OS 10.14.6. You won’t see the password while typing it, but hit ENTER when you have finished typing it. Copy the below text then paste it into the terminal: sudo xattr -r -d /Applications/Audacity/ Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. If that does not help, it is probably Gatekeeper interference, assuming you are on macOS 10.12.1 or later.

Is Generate > Pluck… and Effect > Adjustable Fade… also missing? If so, ensure at Audacity > Preferences…, Effects section that that the “Nyquist” box is ticked (checked).Įnsure you installed Audacity correctly and are not running it from the DMG: Which version exactly of Sierra? See Apple Menu > About This Mac….

Now i need the Analyze → Silence Finder… function.

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