Audacity Forum

Solved. The laptop was defective! Took CD to Costco (where I bought laptop in July) and played it on a floor model - was much louder. Since I was within the 3 month return period they suggested I just swap it out. I did and the new laptop is just like my 5 year old laptop that died (drowned actually...

In my sys 7 home premium the stereo mixer is labeled volume mixer. All sliders are maxed. Muting or allowing microphone volume has no effect. In audacity the wave forms are at .25 unless the song screaming insanely loud, then it sometimes touches 0.5. I have recorded songs with audacity with my prev...

All the volume sliders are at max: firefox, audacity, all the control panel sliders. Can't get the volume above 0.50 (usually 0.25) in the audacity waveform tracks. Went to Costco (were I bought the laptop) with a cd to determine if a store model would be louder or not. When I play the same cd in my...

Am having a problem with low volume in new laptop. My question is: When I right click the speaker icon in the sys tray next to date / time it is labeled volume mixer, I see 4 areas: Speakers and headphones, system sounds, Audacity and Mozilla Firefox. The volume sliders are all set to max. When reco...

The lack of volume issue remains when I play a cd; low volume in Audacity but lots of volume using ear buds. When I adjust the volume in windows media player (used to play the CD) the volume adjusts accordingly in Audacity, but it is still less than + / - 0.5. Usually it is around 0.25 + /-. Same is...

Used Audacity in previous laptop to record from internet - really basic application, no problems. New laptop has system 7 and "beats audio". Using 1.3.13 Audacity. Everything appears correctly in Audacity except the graph indicates about 50% volume at best, and when playing back songs after burning ...