Versions of Audacity before 2.1.3 were usually installed inside a folder named 'Audacity' which was in the 'Applications' folder. If you had a previous installation of Audacity 2.1.2 or earlier, its shipped plugins were in the 'Plug-Ins' folder where Audacity was installed. Plugins from previous Audacity installations Depending on your Finder Preferences, the Audacity icon may be titled 'Audacity' or 'Audacity.app'. Launch Audacity.app from Applications or from your chosen location.You need the administrator password to copy Audacity to Applications. You can also drag Audacity.app out of the DMG to any other location.Drag the Audacity.app icon rightwards onto the Applications folder shortcut.(Some browsers may offer the option to automatically open the DMG file for you.) Once the download has completed to your Downloads folder, double-click the DMG file to mount it.

On the FossHub Audacity page left-click the Audacity macOS DMG link.This takes you to the FossHub site where our downloads are hosted. On the download page, left-click the 'installer' link, the.Go to the Mac Download page of the Audacity site. to see diagnostic information about FFmpeg detection.If you are updating from Audacity 2.x or earlier please read Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x as there was a major change to the project file structure when Audacity 3.0.0 was introduced. You can also choose Help > Diagnostics > Show Log.

button to obtain the correct library for your operating system.

If you still see 'not found', you may have installed the wrong libraries.

Note that the FFmpeg library has been locatedįFmpeg Library Version should now show a set of three version numbers for the sub-libraries of FFmpeg ('F' for libavformat version, 'C' for libavcodec version and 'U' for libavutil version).

Navigate to the folder that contains FFmpeg and select the file ' ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib'.

If the ' Locate FFmpeg' dialog appears, click Browse.

If a ' Success' message indicates Audacity has now automatically detected valid FFmpeg libraries and asks if you want to detect them manually, click No, then OK to close Preferences.

To do this, access Preferences then the ' Libraries' tab on the left:Īs in the image above, the 'FFmpeg Library Version' will say ' FFmpeg library not found'. If you installed FFmpeg while Audacity was running, or if you installed FFmpeg to a non-default location, Audacity will ask you to configure Preferences to locate the FFmpeg library.

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