Audacity Forum

Continuing the post above, I had to configure Audacity as follows: Under Edit --> Preferences --> Audio I/O Selected Playback Device as Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output Selected Recording Device as Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input Turns out it also worked if I selected Playback Device as Speakers (Real...

I solved my problem. The drop down input menu is still grayed out, but I was able to get Audacity to record by doing the following: In the Control Panel, selected "Realtek HD Audio Manager" and set the defaults to "Speakers" and "Stereo Mix". In the Control Panel, selected "Sound" and set Playback d...

I have the same problem. I have been using Audacity for years on a USB drive on XP and Vista 32 machines. Today I plugged it into a Vista-64 machine and could not record. The drop-down menu where you select the input is grayed out. Even tried the XP compatibility mode and the menu is still grayed ou...