Audacity Forum

and my second question?

mket wrote:The default playback device is set to "speakers" on my computer and no USB devices are connected. Other applications that produce sound through the speakers work fine.

What options do you have for the playback device in the device toolbar, and which option is selected?

(Overdub checked is only way to hear the playback....Playthrough acts like it wants external input: mic/line in, etc) "Overdub" must be ON (selected). "Software Playthrough" must be OFF (not selected). Is that how you have it? "Set Audacity to record from the actual input t...

If you plug in a normal (mono) microphone, and record in stereo. that should be recorded on the left (upper) channel in Audacity. Is it recording on the upper or lower channel in Audacity?

Take the earbuds out of your ears (but still plugged into the computer). Can you hear the metronome? If you can, then so can the computer mic.

In the device toolbar, set "host" to MME and the "recording device" to your microphone (not "Stereo Mix" or "Sound Mapper")

Do you also get the problem when Skype is not running?
Try, logging out of your computer, then back in again - If Skype automatically starts, shut it down, then launch Audacity. Then try processing a file - what happens?

"no more difficult" - it's been so long since I played with Linux I don't remember the details. Generically, resetting manually requires: There are several ways that work for Audacity 2.1 on Linux. Here are two methods: Method 1. With Audacity closed, enter in a terminal: rm ~/.audacity-d...

Edgar wrote:Even if the two apps are conjoined at the hip as it were?

No Linux distributions that I know of include the manual in the Audacity package. In fact, I don't know of any distribution that even packages the manual.

The intention is clearly to return vendorName and if we ever change vendorName we would almost certainly want the change to proliferate into NyquistEffect.GetID. 15 years from now if we change the branding name we would almost certainly pick up the two instances of vendorName and appName but could ...