Someone came in today asking to use one of the studios to work on a podcast project. They asked which program to use for such a task and whoever was at the desk at the time suggested that Audacity would be a good choice. Fast forward to two hours later, the person working on the podcast was so impressed with Audacity that they decided to install in on their own MacBook. She tried to install Audacity and kept receiving a warning message which would prevent her from installing it on her laptop. So there are two reasons as to why this was happening:
- Audacity is not currently on the Mac App store. This means that you have to install it by downloading it directly and installing it.
- If you are using any version of OS X that is 10.7 (Lion) or newer, you have any additional layer of security to get through since you are installing an application from an outside source.
Since 10.7, Apple by default blocks the installation of any application that does not come from either the Mac App store or from a list of pre-approved vendors. The people who produce Audacity have chosen not to list their application on the App Store and they are not on the list of approved vendors. To install Audacity, you should first follow the instructions and download links from Audacity's website; These can be found here. Once you get to the end of those directions, if you are on 10.7 or newer you will get a message that looks like this:
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| You'll see this, but with about 200% more Audacity references. |
When you get this message, Audacity will not complete its installation until you do the following:
- Go to Mac Preferences.
- Navigate to the Security and Privacy menu.
- Click the "Open Anyway" button.
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| If it says "Audacity was blocked" you should probably click that button. If it says something else, you're on your own. |
Now Audacity will finish its installation and will work properly on someone's personal laptop.
-Have a good week everyone, Stephen
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