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#1 2025-05-19 14:19:31

LudwigJ
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Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

In the latest versions of Audacity (3.7.*), some effects are missing from "Effect->Noise Removal and Repair".
In the package distributed by Arch, I only get "Click Removal", "Noise Reduction" and "Repair".
The official AppImage (3.7.3) includes the missing effects, namely "Clip Fix" and "Noise Gate".
Any ideas what could be the problem?

Last edited by LudwigJ (2025-05-20 19:44:05)

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#2 2025-05-19 19:18:06

jonno2002
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

audacity has a scrolling effect menu, if you hover over the the little arrow at the bottom of the menu you will see the 2 effects you require further down the list

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#3 2025-05-19 19:54:26

LudwigJ
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

In my version of Audacity, installed from Arch, "Clip Fix" and "Noise Gate" are missing, period.
They are not were they should be ("Effect->Noise Removal and Repair") nor anywhere else.
Right now I need to use the official AppImage to have these effects.

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#4 2025-05-19 20:14:29

jonno2002
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

im using the current version 1:3.7.3-2 and there is no ("Effect->Noise Removal and Repair") submenu so i dont know what version you are using ?

pacman -Qs audacity

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#5 2025-05-19 21:10:15

LudwigJ
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

audacity 1:3.7.3-2 (pro-audio)

As I stated in my OP, the same happens in previous versions (as far as I could downgrade).

Last edited by LudwigJ (2025-05-19 21:11:58)

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#6 2025-05-20 06:59:13

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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

so you dont have the scrolling effects menu like this screenshot ??
https://imgdrop.io/image/h8BYw
arrows and required effects circled in green

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#7 2025-05-20 12:43:46

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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

This is what I get in audacity installed with pacman:
https://imgdrop.io/image/ht66b

And this is what I get in the official AppImage (and I what I should get according to the manual):
https://imgdrop.io/image/hteFm
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ind … ml#effects
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/clip_fix.html

Please note that the "Spectral Tools" submenu is also missing.

Last edited by LudwigJ (2025-05-20 12:45:22)

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#8 2025-05-20 12:56:27

Whoracle
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

Might be stupid, but a quick thing to check nontheless: Are you actually running the current audacity version? My effects menu looks like yours, but I got the additional ones. Run audacity, then click Help > About and compare versions.

No matter the version, open a terminal and see what

type audacity
file /path/to/what/type/told/you

gives you. Might still be something wonky there.

If all that checks out, do you see errors when running audacity from a terminal?

Edit: Help > Diagnostics > Show Logs might have something

Last edited by Whoracle (2025-05-20 13:08:02)

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#9 2025-05-20 13:31:06

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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

Thanks for your answer. Yes, I'm definitely running 3.7.3 installed with pacman.

file `type -p audacity`
/usr/bin/audacity: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, 
interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=8ccefbce4aa15855726fcbad951bf685e1425e79, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, stripped

Audacity runs silently from the terminal, and Help > Diagnostics > Show Logs only shows this:

10:20:48 AM: Audacity 3.7.3
10:20:48 AM: FFmpeg libraries loaded successfully from: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.61.7.100
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://linuxsampler.org/plugins/linuxsampler' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/multisampler_x12' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/multisampler_x12_do' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/multisampler_x24' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/multisampler_x24_do' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/multisampler_x48' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/multisampler_x48_do' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/sampler_mono' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:50 AM: LV2 plugin 'http://lsp-plug.in/plugins/lv2/sampler_stereo' has unsupported type 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#InstrumentPlugin'
10:20:52 AM: FFmpeg libraries loaded successfully from: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.61.7.100

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#10 2025-05-20 13:42:11

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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

and another sanity check: ffmpeg is installed? (grasping at straws here, but that's the only optdepends audacity has apart from the docs)

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#11 2025-05-20 14:00:56

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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

pacman -Qi ffmpeg

Name            : ffmpeg
Version         : 2:7.1.1-2
Description     : Complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://ffmpeg.org
Licenses        : GPL-3.0-only
Groups          : None
Provides        : libavcodec.so=61-64  libavdevice.so=61-64  libavfilter.so=10-64  libavformat.so=61-64  libavutil.so=59-64
                  libpostproc.so=58-64  libswresample.so=5-64  libswscale.so=8-64
Depends On      : alsa-lib  aom  bzip2  cairo  dav1d  fontconfig  freetype2  fribidi  glib2  glibc  glslang  gmp  gnutls
                  gsm  harfbuzz  jack  lame  libass  libavc1394  libbluray  libbs2b  libdrm  libdvdnav  libdvdread  libgl
                  libiec61883  libjxl  libmodplug  libopenmpt  libplacebo  libpulse  libraw1394  librsvg  libsoxr  libssh
                  libtheora  libva  libvdpau  libvorbis  libvpx  libwebp  libx11  libxcb  libxext  libxml2  libxv  ocl-icd
                  onevpl  opencore-amr  openjpeg2  opus  rav1e  rubberband  sdl2  snappy  speex  srt  svt-av1  v4l-utils
                  vapoursynth  vid.stab  vmaf  vulkan-icd-loader  x264  x265  xvidcore  xz  zeromq  zimg  zlib
                  libass.so=9-64  libbluray.so=2-64  libbs2b.so=0-64  libdav1d.so=7-64  libfreetype.so=6-64
                  libharfbuzz.so=0-64  libjxl.so=0.11-64  libopenmpt.so=0-64  libplacebo.so=349-64  librav1e.so=0.7-64
                  librsvg-2.so=2-64  librubberband.so=3-64  libva.so=2-64  libva-drm.so=2-64  libva-x11.so=2-64
                  libvidstab.so=1.2-64  libvorbisenc.so=2-64  libvorbis.so=0-64  libvpx.so=9-64  libx264.so=164-64
                  libx265.so=212-64  libxvidcore.so=4-64  libzimg.so=2-64  libzmq.so=5-64
Optional Deps   : avisynthplus: AviSynthPlus support [installed]
                  frei0r-plugins: Frei0r video effects support [installed]
                  intel-media-sdk: Intel QuickSync support (legacy)
                  ladspa: LADSPA filters [installed]
                  nvidia-utils: Nvidia NVDEC/NVENC support [installed]
                  onevpl-intel-gpu: Intel QuickSync support [installed]
Required By     : audacious-plugins  devede  digikam  ffmpegthumbnailer  ffms2  firefox  gst-libav  k3b  kdenlive
                  kfilemetadata  kfilemetadata5  mplayer  mpv  opencv  qt5-webengine  qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg  qt6-webengine
                  simplescreenrecorder  telegram-desktop  thunderbird
Optional For    : audacity  gegl  libde265  libheif  mlt  python-matplotlib  subtitleedit  yt-dlp
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 39.84 MiB
Packager        : Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Tue May 6 06:22:10 2025
Install Date    : Mon May 12 18:48:07 2025
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

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#12 2025-05-20 14:29:26

Whoracle
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

Disabled in Audacitys Plugin Manager? That one also has a "rescan" button.

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#13 2025-05-20 19:10:06

jonno2002
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

^^ i think this will be your answer....
well this has been a learning process, if i bypass my audacity config files i get the same menu layout as you but i have the plugins listed

pacman -Qo /usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/clipfix.ny /usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/noisegate.ny 
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/clipfix.ny is owned by audacity 1:3.7.3-2
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/noisegate.ny is owned by audacity 1:3.7.3-2

thanks for making me investigate this cause that scrolling menu drove me nuts, much better now !

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#14 2025-05-20 19:43:17

LudwigJ
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Re: Audacity: missing effects [SOLVED]

OK, I think I might have found a "solution" of sorts. I might be being paranoid, but I think it's a language problem.

My system language is Spanish, and what made me suspicious was that the Clip Fix plugin finally appeared, but
outside its natural submenu, and with its Spanish name, although I had changed the interface language to English in
Audacity.

In a terminal I exported LC_ALL=C, launched Audacity from the command line and did a plugin rescan. And lo and behold,
all the plugins are now where they should be, including other missing plugins I hadn't mentioned, like several fading types.
The plugins remain there after setting the Audacity interface again to Spanish.

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