MacOS has made a huge change in the
last year. Apple's newest release of
their operating system 10.15 has removed the ability to run 32-bit programs and
increase the amount of control users
have with what programs access what data.
This has caused problems with recording
in audacity as no matter what you try
audacity just records a flat line.. but
there's an easy solution--right after the
intro! So, first off, any permissions that
you granted while your computer was
running Mac OS Mohave will be reset when you upgrade to Catalina. This is in a
push to make Mac OS a more private
operating system compared to something like
Windows or Ubuntu where Catalina will
prompt you every time a certain program
tries to use your location, microphone,
camera, etc. For whatever reason, Apple
decided it was best to reset these
permissions when updating, so to fix
this you can launch System Preferences,
go to security and privacy, microphone,
click the lock in the corner, type in
your credentials to unlock this panel so
you can make changes, check the box next to audacity, and click the lock again to
confirm your changes. However, you might notice this still doesn't fix audacity
but you still need to allow it to access
these permissions. To launch the program
correctly, it's kind of weird you have to
do it through the terminal which is not
hard at all. Just paste the code I have
in the description, and audacity should
be able to record properly now. I'm not
sure why this is but perhaps audacity
gets the proper permissions and needs
when launched through the terminal. Sadly
you'll have to do this every time you
want to use audacity, but you can easily
make a script to do this for you. If you
don't want to go through that trouble
every other time you launch terminal
past the first time, you can press the up
arrow to cycle through previous commands you have typed to save some time. So you
hit the up arrow and your previous
command will be right there ready for
you. Well that's it for this short video,
this week has hit harder than expected
with finals but the normal length of
videos should be back next week. To
compensate for that though, we did double upload this week, so watch that if you're
interested on how to get your year in
review for Apple music. And if you're not
interested in that then go and watch the
airpods 2 review we did a couple weeks
ago. And with that, thank you guys for watching, and we'll see you next week.
