If you are a Windows user, you need to set the recording source as the speaker or the headphone due to your device when recording desktop audio via Audacity.Mac and Windows pc have their built-in audio recorder called Voice Memos and Voice Recorder, but they can't capture desktop audio by default.If you totally quit Audacity you will need to relaunch from the Terminal app again every time.

If you leave Audacity active (black dot) in the bottom dock you can just relaunch from the Audacity logo. Once you have granted this access in Catalina you should not be asked for it again when relaunching Audacity with this workaround method. When you first try to record, you will be asked to grant access to the microphone - similar happened in 1.14 Mojave - but microphone access permissions granted in Mojave do not pass through to Catalina. If it is somewhere else, you will need to change the path in the above command: open /*location of audacity*/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity This assume that Audacity is stored in your Applications folder. This will open Audacity and then Terminal will actually ask for the correct permissions. If you have updated to Catalina and still need to use Audacity for recording as well as all its other functionality: 1) Go to Applications > Utilitiesģ) in the Terminal dialog type the following command following command: open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity This is a permissions issue regarding access to the microphone (recording input) and something which we need to explore further. It appears to launch and run fine but it fails to record from the microphone (or external USB device) yielding only a flat-line silent recording. N early October Apple released its latest operating system 10.15.x known as Catalina.Īudacity is not officially supported yet to run under Catalina.

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