

In today’s post we walk our readers through the process of using our favorite free, open source audio editing software for Mac OS X, aka Audacity to remove extra silence from anywhere within your recording! If you delete the Audacity folder from a previous installation, remember to move any optional plug-ins you added to its plug-ins folder to the new Audacity Plug-Ins folder at ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/Plug-Ins.After last week’s eye-crossing tempo + pitch changes, we are pleased to offer an Audacity tutorial that is beyond simple to use!.Alternatively you can remove all unwanted duplicates, whether you have deleted the old Audacity installation folder or not, by deleting the file pluginregistry.cfg in ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/.This does not remove the duplicates from the Plug-in Manager's list, but disables them so they do not appear in the menus. You can remove any duplicates that do not run by using Effect > Add / Remove Plug-ins.Duplicates of other previously shipped plug-ins might appear even if they no longer exist, in which case they will fail to run. Because Audacity's shipped plug-ins are now bundled inside the application, any still extant Nyquist plug-ins that came with previous Audacity will appear as a second copy of the plug-in 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 plug-ins were in the "plug-ins" folder where Audacity was installed. Plug-ins from previous Audacity installations
