Audacity Forum

I understand that it's not Audacity's fault, but they will eventually have to play in the Win8 world and I hope they use this report as something to start testing. Other audio playback apps seem to work fine, but I have not tried other recording software. I guess I'll try to find other recording sof...

Within Audacity, I've tried selecting MME and when that didn't work I tried Windows Direct Sound. These are the only two options in the drop down. Then within the output drop down, I've tried Speakers (RealTech Hi Def) and Microsoft Sound Mapper-Output (again the only two options) and on the input s...

Sadly, I've tried that and still no joy.

I tried all modes (Vista, Win7, Win XP) and I get the same results.

Nevermind. I found it.

No! I wasn't aware that that was an option. Where can I find that dialog? I looked under preferences, but I don't see it.

I was hoping that someone else had experienced this problem with Win 8 and had a simple solution, but failing that, I expect that they are working on a version of Audacity that will work on Windows 8 and I hoped that I could help beta test it. I installed Win 8 on my higher powered desktop machine b...

I just installed the Windows 8 Release Preview (Big mistake.. Don't do it!), and now, even though I hear good audio through my speakers when not using Audacity, Audacity records this:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26911731/Misc/Noise.mp3 Even simply loading a good mp3, when played through Audacity I get th...

Leave the sample format in Audacity at 32-bit float (that gives highest quality editing and processing). As it is a USB device, another possibility is that the USB could be playing up. Avoid using other USB devices at the same time - don't use a USB hub - if your computer is a full size PC, try con...

It's most likely the sound card. Are you using an on-board sound card? You could try changing the default sample rate - most on-board sound cards work best at 44100 or 48000 Hz. Ensure that the default sample rate in Audacity matches with the default sample rate for the sound card in the Windows Co...