Audacity Forum

<<<genius of the threads>>> I'll take that as the antidote to a posting further down the forum: <<<Should I presume that you do not regularly bathe or get enough sunlight due to a fear of leaving your mother's basement?>>> I like your questions better. OS-X 10.5. It's usually three numbers, not that...

<<<If there is a way to ruin this guy's rep on eBay, then have at it.>>>

Or not. They warn you that flinging around bad reviews on eBay may result in a review war where nobody wins.

Koz

<<<2kHz to 20kHz>>> We do need to be careful about that. Some tweeter systems are designed for intermittent usage typical of a loud orchestra and will turn into a pile of cinders with a sustained test signal. It's one of the reasons I haven't posted a number of test sounds in a "visible" p...

I think I got pieces of this. Audacity will record up to, I think, 8 channels of sound from one sound device. Most multiple channel devices appear to Windows as multiple devices and Audacity can only handle one device at a time. We'll see what the other people say.

Koz

<<<Any suggestions?>>>

Yes. You can tell us what you're trying to do. "Recording off my sound card" could mean anything. Are you having trouble recording a microphone plugged into the sound card?

Koz

I'm beginning to think the best course of action on these catastrophic failure problems, is to download version 1.3.x and use that. There have been a number of crash stories like yours and nothing I've been able to do so far has helped except stop using 1.2.x. It's like there's nothing wrong, but it...

There wasn't quite enough information in your post to determine a direction to solve the problem. <<<attempting to sequence the events of my day >>> I do the scenarios as a shortcut to avoid the long explanation of how it's possible to seem like you got a recording when in fact you did no such thing...

I went back too far. You said you got the 1.3.x to work.

The systems people are busy pushing 1.4.x out the door, so you're having troubles at a particularly messy time.

If you got 1.3.x to work enough to get by, it's probably best to just stick with it.

Koz

You're really close to Stump The Band time. Crashes like that happen when Audacity fails on launch system inspection. That, in turn, happens when it sees a hardware device it hates. To recap, you have no external "things" connected? No USB Turntables, thumb drives, microphones, etc? Restar...

Where to start. Let's get a little diagnostic going. Apple, System Preferences, Hardware, Sound, Input. If you select Line In and play the turntable, do you get flashing lights? Nothing happens without that. Is the panel Input Volume Control all the way up? And just to paint the picture, you capture...