Audacity Forum

Windows, Mac, Linux?
Audacity 1.2/1.3?

Does the Versa Port work? Is it recognised by your operating system?
Have you selected it in Audacity (Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O) ?

Audacity is designed as a desktop application. There is very little command line support (other than opening a named file).

Hutchie wrote:I've never had this problem before, only since Wednesday.

So what changed on Wednesday? Possibly a Windows update?

Give Audacity 1.3 a go - most Vista users report that it is more stable on Vista than the old 1.2 version.

Windows users, like Mac users, normally have to install LAME themselves in order to encode MP3: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3. It's a legal issue, not a technical one. I don't know how you would have gotten around that with your Dell. If Audacity 1.2 was being used AN...

There is information about ALSA supported sound cards here: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
Good luck.

I've had the same problem, should I re-install it? so annyoing because its perfect other than that As said previously - Audacity does NOT require registering or "activation. If your program does require this, then it is not the genuine "Audacity". Many Vista users recommend Audacity ...

Granpoh wrote:

stevethefiddle wrote: Note also that the maximum file size for a WAV file is 4GB.

Really? I have a few WAV files on my computer right now that are nearly 5GBs long.

Interesting - they must be using the RF64, or W64 format (or something similar) rather than standard WAVs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Limitations

Hannothor wrote:My .aup's and .wav's still still disappears in 50% af all cases when closing audacity

I presume that you are using "File menu > Save As" to save the project before you close Audacity?

By disabling the software playthrough, you can't hear anything. That depends on your hardware. If you use the same device for recording and playback, then it should be possible to set it to playback while recording using hardware playthrough (providing the hardware and drivers support this, which m...

Like I say post rebuild of Hardy there was no memory ramping and the 1 hour recordings were very responsive to work with - this morning we're back in the grey-world. "post" rebuild of hardy? Do you mean "pre" rebuild of hardy? When was Audacity nice and responsive and when was i...