Audacity Forum

Sorry, it's beyond repair.

Ensure that the sound card is fully connected before you open Audacity.

What settings do you have in:
1) Edit menu > Preferences > Devices
2) Edit > Preferences > Quality

Could you also list the alternative (not selected) option on the "Preferences > Devices".

You're right Gale. Steps to reproduce: From an Explorer window: Tools > Folder Options > File Types > .WAV > Advanced Select "open" and click "Edit". Click "Browse" and select Audacity. Click "OK" "Application to Perform this action" is recorded as: ...

I don't use Macs but the instructions here: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins say: "To install new plug-ins, place them in the Plug-Ins folder inside the Audacity installation folder . On Windows computers, this is usually under "Program Files". On Mac OS X, it is usually under...

On a real XP machine I removed all Audacity keys from the registry, installed 1.2.6, set "Open with" to associate with WAV, double-clicked a WAV to open it in 1.2.6. Then quit and uninstalled 1.2.6, installed 2.0.0, double-clicked a WAV deep in the file structure that contained spaces in ...

I have tried AM modulation (which didn't work that well, but removing the carrier wave was quite interesting) and I haven't been able to find an FM equivalent bit of Nyquist code but it must be possible "Tremolo" is amplitude modulation (with a slow modulation frequency) "Vibrato&quo...

Does your WxWidgets installation include the development headers?
Another possibility is that 2.9.1 may be too recent - the most recent version that I've tried is 2.8.12.

If you mute the playback while recording "what is playing on the computer" there will be nothing to record. If you want to record sounds that are playing on your computer without hearing it, get some speakers that have an "off" switch, or plug in some headphones and don't wear th...

ayryq wrote:For those who come after, wxgtk has a ppa to get the current version

Version 2.8.10 is recent enough.
When I used 2.8.12 (from the PPA) on Debian I was getting a few glitches in the Audacity interface, so if 2.8.10 or later are available in your distribution repository then I'd recommend using that.

Which problem could you reproduce, "looking only for the first word in the path"? Yes, that was the question that I was replying to and I reproduced that problem on my virtual XP machine, then fixed it with the steps given. Having more than one version of a program, installed into differe...