Audacity Forum

On further testing the headphone problem is not with audacity. All of a sudden my headphone jack doesn't work at all. Headphones work fine on my keyboard so I know it's a laptop issue. That's just great. I guess this project will definitely have to be single tracked now.

Josh

They are plugged into the headphone jack on the side of the laptop.

This may be exactly what you were saying with needing exclusive access to the sound card but when I have it set on that setting I can't hear it in my headphones. If I unplug the headphones I can hear it through the computer speakers but obviously you can't record a second track with the first track ...

The other options under playback are:

HDA Intel PCH: ALC270 Analog(hw:0,0)
HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 0 (hw:0,3)
sysdefault
front
surround40
surround51
surround71
hdmi
pulse
dmix
default

it always stops recording halfway through. If there is a selected (highlighted) region, then recording will stop at the end of that region. To ensure that there is no selected region, press the Home button before you start recording. What options are available and which options are selected in the ...

Yes all my drives are local. I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 and Audacity is the only program I have open while I'm doing it. This is a new laptop though it's not the most top of the line. I might have to do a scaled back version of the proposal cd and only do the 1 man band approach.

I am in the process of recording an audio cd of my girlfriend's favorite music to be used in an elaborate proposal for either Christmas (not looking good) or Valentine's Day. Being a fulltime student with 2 jobs I'm just now really getting going on the project. I recorded the first track of the firs...