[grc] What to do when Mac kills Audacity?

[Michael J White]

I am Michael White.  I produce content, as opposed to broadcasting it.  
My show Baroque and Beyond is on about 25 of your stations.  I produce 
the show with Audacity.

I think Linux is the answer to the problem, however.

Apple has no financial interest in making Audacity or any other 
non-Apple software work with their operating system.  Ditto with 
Microsoft and Windows.

I use Audacity and Asunder to put my show together and I do it on a 
Linux computer.  So, the short term fix is to have an inexpensive laptop 
or older desktop running Linux, which is dedicated to just using 
Audacity to produce the content.  As I type this, I have a 10 year old 
laptop running Linux Mint, running Asunder for ripping CDs, to expand my 
library of early music, medieval music, Celtic music and even opera, for 
my show and producing audio CDs at my daughter's request.  I have 
another computer, a 10 year old desktop that I bought at government 
auction for about $75, running a version of Ubuntu, and it's ripping CDs 
of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, for the radio show.

I submit the short term urgent contingency plan is 1 or 2 older 
inexpensive computers running Linux.

I suggest a long term solution is to make sure that key programs, such 
as Audacity and other Linux open source software, remains up to date.   
The solution to that is to pool resources to support the developers.  
Relying on someone's interest to ensure crucial software remains usable 
strikes me as pushing our luck.

Michael

On 1/10/20 12:53 AM, Frieda Werden via grc wrote:
> That link doesn't seem to apply to the situation we have.  Anyone else got
> an idea?
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:36 AM Will Floyd <will at prometheusradio.org> wrote:
>
>> After updates we had this problem and used this fix:
>> https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=88589
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:34 AM Frieda Werden via grc <
>> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Upgrades to Macs make Audacity unusable.  Anyone have a workaround?
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