Plugin directory in user’s home directory

[mmeyn]

Your idea

I’d like to have a plugin directory that a non-admin user can access.

Problem to be solved

I’d like to use things like auto-tune in music classes but it was a huge struggle (eight months of e-mails) to get our IT guys to installing Audacity on my computer so I would rather not try this again for plugins.

Prior art

MuseScore has /home/MYNAME/Documents/MuseScore4/Plugins on Linux and a similar location on Windows.

Additional context

No response

[LWinterberg]

You can install plugins into ~/.local/share/audacity/Plug-Ins (or ~/.audacity-data on older Audacity versions) on linux, %appdata%\audacity\Plug-Ins on Windows.

[mmeyn]

This is not documented, is it? At least I can’t find this info at https://support.audacityteam.org/basics/customizing-audacity/installing-plugins

[mmeyn]

I tried copying the MuseFX .vst3 files from Program Files\Common Files\VST3 on another Windows computer to %appdata%\audacity\Plug-Ins on my work computer. Audacity doesn’t seem to find them there. Shouldn’t this work? If this is expected behaviour, this issue should be re-opened. If this is unexpected, what might I have done wrong?

[LWinterberg]

If you are trying to use the same project in both computers, this is expected. The ID of a VST3 plugin contains the install path.