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Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".

Check the settings in the device toolbar . The recording input should be set to the microphone , not "stereo mix", or "sound mapper" or "loopback". Also check in the Windows Sound Control Panel that "listen to this device" is not selected for the microphone in...

donpaul wrote:it was but after that I have been having a red X symbol at the sound option and it says no audio output device is installed.

Where are you seeing that? A screenshot might be useful.
Which version of Windows are you using?

is the legal problem still there? Unfortunately yes. To use ASIO legally, Audacity needs to be built against the ASIO headers, which are under a non-distributable license. Audacity is under GPL v2 licenses, which guarantees that the source code is freely available. To satisfy the conditions of one ...

Rath Darkblade wrote: I tried singing, I tried speaking - nada

To record from a microphone, select the microphone as the recording input in the device toolbar.

Alternatively how can I submit a patch ? To submit patches yourself, there are two ways: * As a pull request on GitHub: https://github.com/audacity/audacity * Email a patch to the developer's mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/lists/audacity-devel (registration required) or, th...

Audacity 2.1.3 is very old. The current version is 2.2.2, which is available here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Upgrading is highly recommended. "Orphan blockfile" messages means that Audacity has found audio data that it thinks does not belong to the project. "missing block...

Please state which version of macOS you are using, and the exact three-section version of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity". it keeps giving the error messaged as pinned on the thread. Do you mean "Audacity is already running..."? If so: https://forum.audacityteam.or...

shaul_eiz wrote:As a spin off to the above question I'd like to know if you plan adding Multi-device support.

No plans, though it can be done already on Linux and Mac. For Windows, the usual way is to use ASIO, but the license terms for ASIO are compatible with GPL (Audacity's open source license).

Rather than restarting Audacity, you could try "rescan audio devices" (Transport menu)