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Eureka! Those changes did not work on their own but I noticed that the number of channels was set to 4 - God knows how or why. But when I moved this to 2, all was fine.

So, Mr Steve the Fiddle, whoever you may be and wherever you are, many grateful thanks for helping me.

Max (SW England)

Thank you for your reply. The answer to your questions are: In other words, everything is internal So you are wanting to record from "Stereo Mix". Yes We need to look at relevant settings for the sound system, including settings that are not in Audacity. Do you know how to access your Real...

I'm sorry I should have said. I am recording from the radio. In other words, everything is internal. I do not use external input at all. But I have tried a microphone in the mic jack and I still get the error message. Does that focus it down for you?

Max

I am being driven crazy by the error message "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input settings and the project sample rate." I use Windows XP SP3 and have been recording with Audacity 1.2 for three years or so very well. But suddenly this message started coming (around 20t...