Audacity Forum

Nope, it still resets the volume balance even in Compatibility mode (for XP, 2000 and NT). The revert.exe never resets the volume balance, regardless of Compatibility mode, in case that's of interest, too.

If you can, can you right-click in Explorer over the 2.0.3 (and/or 2.0.2) audacity.exe and over the "revert r12160.exe", then choose Properties, then the "Compatibility" tab. Are any of those EXE's running in Compatibility Mode, if so for what operating system? Neither 2.0.3. nor the revert.exe are...

* In 2.0.3, do you still have the problem if you choose "Windows DirectSound" host instead of "MME" in Audacity's Device Toolbar? Yes. (However even if this solved the problem, it would not be an alternative, because recording with "Windows DirectSound" is glitchy; it gives me distortion on the stu...

Since it doesn't seem that I can edit my initial post (?), I'll tack it on here: I use Windows 7 64-bit and install Audacity from the .exe installers.

Hi, I installed 2.0.3 after previously using 2.0.1 and found it has the following problem: Each time I open Audacity (be it per double-click, or by opening a track by right-clicking it and selecting "open with Audacity"), my PC volume balance (picture below) gets automatically set back to 100 on all...

Gale Andrews wrote:The simplest answer is often to rename the 2.0.x "audacity.exe" to something else such as "audacity 2.0.1.exe", then you will be able to add it to Open with.

Hey awesome, that worked! Thanks!

Hi there, one awesome conveniency of 1.3.x that 2.0.x doesn't seem to have (unless I'm doing something wrong) is that with 1.3, I can right-click an audio file (be it .mp3, .wav, .flac, whatever), and in the "open with" drop-down, I can select Audacity.exe, importing said audio track into a new Auda...