Audacity Forum

Sorry, all attempts were in vain. I stopped trying and use Amadeus/Mac. Works fine. Thanks for your help.
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I will keep that in mind. The main purpose is digitizing vinyl, so I guess that won't be a problem. I keep you informed and hope that I now can go on with the job (=digitizing vinyl). Many thanks.

Don't call it a day before it's midnight, but I just recorded a few minutes Stones (with the Audio USB Codec) and even played it back without that annoying greying. Maybe Audacity is working now (untill midnight?). Thanks so far for your tremendous support.

What does Help > About Audacity... say exactly for Audacity version number? On the "Build Information" tab of About Audacity, what is the program build date (near the bottom)? Ingeschakeld Programma-informatie Bouwdatum van het programma: Jan 22 2016 Commit-id: No revision identifier was provided B...

I'll get back to you tomorrow (I'm working on my Mac now). What I can say now is that I did not install Audacity through Synaptic Packet Manager but installed it with Terminal from, I think, the depository I mentioned before (which is, I assume, a mirror of the official Dutch Ubuntu-server/depositor...

According to the Audio Device Info, you don't have any built-in audio device except HDMI. Explain me why Audicty is playing for a while and then crashes. When you double-click that "Vous permettez" song, and so I assume it opens in Rhythmbox, how do you physically listen to the song? Through an amp...

repository Audacity comes from mirror.1000mbps.com. The sound comes from my headphone connection to an amplifier and I am trying to record vinyl records. I just plug in a usb-record player. It worked fine on my Mac using Amadeus but it deceased (my Mac, I mean). Just wanted to try Ubuntu and so I e...

============================== Default recording device number: 4 Default playback device number: 4 ============================== Device ID: 0 Device name: HD-Audio Generic: HDMI 0 (hw:0,3) Host name: ALSA Recording channels: 0 Playback channels: 8 Low Recording Latency: -1,000000 Low Playback Lat...

I did just that. First I tried the instructions on the launchpad web page. No command deb, I got (undoubtly I did the wrong thing). Uninstalled audacity from my computer as told and reinstalled it form (I guess) the Dutch repository: version 2.1.2. Loaded a song (Vous permettez monsieur from Adamo) ...

Bedankt. I will do that. I tell you if it helps (the 2.0.5-version didn't work at all).

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