Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

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On 17/11/15 18:21, CJB wrote:
> Audacity is the music editing app. that I am most familiar with. I
> like it. It works.
>
> I also use it to process downloads from get_iplayer.
>
> However with Microsoft's increasingly aggressive stance in forcing
> upgrades to Windows 10 I am concerned. I have heard that Audacity does
> not work with Win 10.
>
> Is this correct? What are possible work-arounds? Is there an
> alternative Audacity-like app.?
>
> And does get_iplayer work with Win 10?
>
> Thanks - Chris B.
 >
I use get_iplayer and Audacity on Windows 10 64 bit with no problems.

I endorse what Colin Law said, though, change to Linux. My main computer 
is an eight year old laptop running Linux Mint 17.2 and it runs like a 
train. I use the terminal version of get_iplayer installed from the 
repositories and also Audacity with not a single problem.

Install unetbootin on your Windows machine and use that to download and 
install a version of Linux on to a USB stick as a boot disk. You can 
then boot into Linux from the memory stick without affecting the Windows 
install and that will allow you try it out with no risk.

I would recommend Mint as it presents things in a way that a Windows 
user would find somewhat familiar. It is built on Ubuntu stock so runs 
all (?) Ubuntu applications, dunno, but all that I have tried to install.

Clive