Audacity Forum

sdim wrote:... but I can't have both enabled at the same time.

Why not?
Do you mean that they can't be enabled at the same time or just that they can't both be the default?

I'm trying to avoid reinstalling Lets see if we can manage that ;) We'll probably need to go through this a step at a time to rule out possibilities. One fairly easy thing to rule out is if the problem lies in Audacity. It is incredibly rare (never happens) that something suddenly breaks in Audacit...

I've added my vote to "Export Other uncompressed", but of these I think that Exporting as 32-bit (float) is the most important (though not specifically listed on the Feature Requests page of the wiki).

That is each sample in 32 bit has 4,294,967,296 levels of resolution but since the actual data is 16bit, only 65,536 levels are being used and the rest are just sitting there empty. Do I have the right impression about this? That's a close enough description until you do any audio processing. Let's...

That's very interesting. The crackles all occur at intervals of exact multiples of 10 ms.
I'm sure I've come across something similar to this somewhere else on the forum but it may take me some time to find it.

My problem is solved. Audacity gives full stereo in XP. I still have no playback during recording, I have to remove the usb plug to get any sound. There must be a way, so I keep searching. But at least I can record. ;) You probably have Audacity set to play back through your USB device. If you spea...

Clearly something must have changed between when it was working and when it wasn't. Are you able to suggest any clues as to what may have changed? For example, have you updated anything? Was is OK one day then suddenly not OK the next day? Any hardware changes? Any ideas at all?

I had my speakers and phones connected through the on-board sound card, and had no issues with recording. That's what I guessed, but there's no sign of your on-board sound card in the drop down list in Audacity. Did you do anything to disable the on board sound card? I'm not very familiar with Mint...

It does not surprise me at all if recording "stereo mix" is not possible with HDMI audio as one of the main "features" of HDMI is DRM protection. I used to be able to record Internet streams with no issues, but since I started using an HDMI cable to connect the PC with the monito...

Audacity 1.3.13 runs well on Windows XP. I would recommend using Audacity 1.3.13 on both machines.
All of the current documentation is for the 1.3.x version.