Audacity Forum

Maybe I'm going daffy (quite possible) but it seems that until a week ago or so I could simply (1) Boot up my PC, then (2) launch Audacity, then (3) click the red Record button, and Audacity would record silence until I clicked the stop button. And starting a week ago, Number (3) above does nothing ...

I'm just trying to understand why things were one way for me for several years, and then suddenly got different. The change is a negative one for me. I just want to somehow get things back to the way they were a few days ago... when I clicked the red Record button, the track started recording regard...

Thanks, DVDdoug.

But things sure were different, and happier, for me up until about a week ago. How do you explain that?

Dale Pickles

Using Audacity V 2.3.1 on Windows 10. Prior to about a week ago, silence at the beginning or in the middle of a recording worked perfectly for me. I could start recording, record silence as long as I wanted, and then start recording sound from for instance a web site. And I could pause the source, a...