I just updated my Mac to Catalina last week. (Long story short: my charger was acting up and all suggested methods to fix it were hit-or-miss so I thought I might as well update everything to latest, including the OS) The update warned me that Audacity would no longer work, which could be an issue since I use it for slowing down music during practices quite a bit. However, I guess there must be workaround to that so I ignore the warning and proceeded. Well, Audacity did refuse to launch after the Catalina update (I think my version was too old and still was 32-bit) So I installed the latest version, which runs but as users have already reported, recording via microphone didn't work, which required this workaround. Basically just need to run it like this at the Terminal:
open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity
And grant microphone access to the Terminal.
Of course I put that in an executable shell script.
