I want to record audio playing on my PC. I have the Windows WASAPI loopback thing selected, in my recording devices I have “Stereo Mix” selected as my default device, it is enabled and not greyed out, and the sound is otherwise working.
When I click on the record button in Audacity (2.0.5) I get this error message: “Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate.”
How do I fix this?
Audacity can return that error if either your recording service or your playback service is in trouble.
Were you following this?
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html
Audacity 2.0.5 is pretty old. One of the other elves may ask you to upgrade to 2.2.1.
http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
Koz
Thank you for the reply. The solution was to simply restart my PC after I enabled the Stereo Mix recording device.