
Eject the DMG at bottom left of Finder, then launch Audacity.app from /Applications or from your chosen location. Do not double-click the “Audacity” icon in the DMG to launch Audacity from there. Alternatively, drag the “Audacity.app” icon to any other location of your choosing. Drag the “Audacity.app” icon in the DMG window to the /Applications folder icon on the right. Double-click the downloaded DMG to mount it. If you use the optional FFmpeg library you will need to download the appropriate version of it. View All Checksums and read further details on online safety.Īudacity 3.2.5 for macOS has versions for both Intel and Apple silicon macs. High Sierra uses a poor early implementation of APFS which was very troublesome. The Sierras were an unmitigated disaster, saved eventually by Mojave… which you can't use without hacking - not recommended if you want performance & you can't hack it right up to a current OS anyway - so don't.
So, as either is an island in the stream, dropping further & further behind 'today', then the only important thing is how each behaves.Įl Capitan was a really good, solid OS. You will be hard pushed to find any new apps that will support that far back - so long as your current old apps still work that's not an issue. Neither will properly be able to interact with such as the App Store - which won't really matter much as neither will be able to use any new apps from it. Keep it offline as much as humanly possible. Both will increasingly require workarounds to connect to the internet - which should really be avoided for either. Not worth upgrading from El Capitan to High Sierra.īoth OSes are equally out of date compared to modern systems.
This might get closed as 'opinion-based' but before it does… my opinion )