Duplicates of other previously shipped plugins might appear even if they no longer exist, in which case they will fail to run. Because Audacity's shipped plugins are now bundled inside the application, any still extant Nyquist plugins that came with previous Audacity will appear as a second copy of the plugin in the Generate, Effect or Analyze Menu.

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. 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.

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