Audacity Forum

BrianGygi wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:56 am

I have no idea how Wondershare got on there.

That's worrying.
Probably worth giving your computer a thorough test for malware.

Try using the "WASAPI loopback" method described here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tut ... ndows.html

Instructions for installing Nyquist plug-ins on Windows 10: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... st_install

But it takes a long time (and skill) to re-tune a piano and pianos are only tuned to A440 (or more commonly "C 523.23") in the middle octave. To maintain harmonic consistency across multiple octaves, the lower octaves are tuned to slightly lower frequencies, and the upper octaves tuned to slightly ...

Also, the PlugIns directory on C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Roaming\audacity is empty. Shouldn't there be something there? On 64-bit Windows, the plug-ins shipped with Audacity should be in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\Plug-Ins\ On 32-bit Windows: C:\Program Files\Audacity\Plug-Ins\ Optional / 3rd pa...

Are you able to generate a tone? (Generate menu > Tone)
If so, can you play it?

steve wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:31 pm

which operating system?

Windows 10?

That looks OK. I'm wondering if we've been looking in the wrong place. Whenever I would try to save a project, or export a file, or anything that required interacting with Windows, I would get the following error screen (attached). OK, so Audacity crashes on "save" or "export". What do you mean by "...

Nothing obvious so far.

Could you also look in
C:\\Users\\Brian\\AppData\\Local\\Audacity\\SessionData

There should be a file in there called "audacity.cfg". Please post it here.

Could you post the debug report ZIP file. That may have a clue as to what is going on.