Open /Applications/Utilities/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Open / location of audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity If it’s somewhere else, you’ll need to change the path in the above command: Sudo open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacityįinally, this assume that Audacity is stored in your Applications folder. If for some reason this doesn’t work, you can try opening Audacity as root:
This will open Audacity and then Terminal will actually ask for the correct permissions. Open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command: For some reason, Audacity does not ask for these permissions, and as such can’t access the necessary resources to work. Second, there are additional protected folders in Catalina that applications also need to explicitly ask permission to access (such as Desktop and Downloads). I’m curious if there’s a similar method of getting sound to play in Audacity (as well as LMMS and SoundBridge, as stated before) just like the method of recording internal sound on Mac with OBS Studio.The issues on Catalina are NOT driver related, but related to some of the new security and permissions requirements in Catalina.įirst, when an application attempts to access any sound input device, said application requires explicit permission from the user before it can access the mic. The only reason I have iShowU Capture Device and Multi-Output Device there is so I can record my MacBook’s internal sound whenever I use OBS Studio, and I had to follow a tutorial video on that. I’m not sure what the problem with my MackBook Air is here. I feel like the MacBook Air Speakers are the internal speakers.Īlso, I feel like the no sound playing issue is also happening on other software I downloaded onto my MacBook, like LMMS and SoundBridge. It would be a significant improvement if Apple put the Air’s speakers inside the Macbook.
Turns out the Air uses custom compression drivers instead of plain tiny speakers. No trouble watching a movie or show on the Air whereas that was a stretch on the Macbook. My Macbooks’s speakers were pretty dreadful and it was a nice shock when I bought the Air and the built-in sound was so much better. I wonder if that’s not the Macbook’s internal speakers.