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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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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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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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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 audacityOffline
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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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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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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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/yougives 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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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, strippedAudacity 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.61.7.100Offline
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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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 : SignatureOffline
Disabled in Audacitys Plugin Manager? That one also has a "rescan" button.
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^^ 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 1:3.7.3-2thanks for making me investigate this cause that scrolling menu drove me nuts, much better now !
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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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