Audacity Forum

'm not quite sure where you are going with this Well LOF files work fine for me, so I'm going through things that I can see are different on your system to my system. I'm running out of ideas. Are you able to make any LOF file work? Try something really simple - just a plain text (ANSI) LOF file, s...

Internal? External? USB? Flash drive? Network drive? ... It is a partition on an internal drive. I'm not quite sure where you are going with this or why the location should matter provided the path is right in the LOF file ... I would have thought that if there were an issue with the path or locati...

steve wrote:What is drive F?

It's the drive where I store my music.

steve wrote:Which version of Audacity are you using? (Help > About Audacity)

Version 2.1.2

steve wrote:Check (in NotePad++) what the file encoding is of the LOF file.

It was originally in UTF-8-BOM. I've tried with ANSI and UTF 8 encoding but get the same error.

"Audacity did not recognise the type of file ...." What is the full and complete error message? ' Error Importing Audacity did not recognize the type of the file 'F:\OneDrive\My Music\Playlists\ TestAudacity.LOF' If it is uncompressed, try importing it using "Import Raw". ' What...

For LOF files, use "File menu > Open". The name of the LOF file must end with ".lof" I tried that, Steve, but getting the same "Audacity did not recognise the type of file ...." error as when I try Import; also tried dragging the LOF file from Explorer into the Audacit...

I have a .m3u playlist that I have converted to LOF using the instructions here . When I try to import the file I get "Audacity did not recognise the type of file ....". Here is the file (a short list for testing) in case there is a syntax error though I don't think that is the problem. fi...

Ensure that the playback level is turned up on your computer (if necessary, and if using external speakers, turn down the volume on the speakers). Turning up the playback level does increases the recording level but the slider on that also increases the volume on the external speakers so that they ...

Using Audacity 2.1.2 installed using .exe on Windows 10 on Dell XPS8700 with Realtek HD.

I cannot get WASAPI working so I'm using Direct Sound with Stereo Mix. The monitoring level is fine but recording level is far too low - see attached image.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?