Audacity Forum

It's more usual for USB to mess this up, but you can get problems with straight analog, too. Audacity is pretty much a complete slave to the machine that's running it. You should go into the Windows Sound Control Panels and make sure...I think it's "Speakers" and "Line" or "...

Oh, wait. The coffee is kicking in. Are you trying to open a 1.3 project in 1.2? That doesn't work. You may be able to get your work back by installing 1.3 and opening the projects in that. You can safely put both 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine as long as you only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projec...

<<<I don't - I did, however, just have a new HD installed a few weeks ago that freed up 175 GB. >>> <<<noting that only the later versions of the project were deleted, >>> We tell people they can't move Audacity projects -- like from one hard drive to another. It's not copy and paste or drag and dro...

How, in detail, did you connect the tape machine to your computer?

Koz

First I heard of this Aggregated Device thing.

In all instances, Audacity is still a complete slave to the computer it's running on. Audacity picks up sound from the computer sound services -- always. No computer, no sound.

Koz

And we never tire of reminding people that "Stereo Mix" and "What U Hear" are both tied to the sound card. Get the wrong sound card and either or both of those could be missing. Some of the newer Windows Laptops have a built-in sound card with both of those missing. In those case...

Most of the M-Audio line uses ASIO drivers. Audacity doesn't directly support ASIO because they keep wanting to be paid for it.

Koz

The range of positive to negative infinity is a long way.

Koz

<<<Audacity can record my voice along with my computer's audio SIMULTANEOUSLY.>>>

No. Not during a Skype call.

Koz

Recording Skype calls in a useful manner is far from simple. Do a Skype forum search. Audacity will not do two things at the same time no matter how you split up the tasks. Recording Skype calls is not simple because in addition to the bi-directional problem, Skype rips control of the sound card awa...