Audacity Forum

...My plan in general is to record the whole evening, then split it up into songs later.... I tried that once, and wished I hadn't - splitting it up the next day was such a pain because the project was huge and everything took ages to do. I find it much more convenient to save each song as a projec...

Click on the menu "Edit->Preferences->Audio I/O" and make sure that your USB device is selected for both recording and playback device.

The record source and record level functions on the Audacity main window, are for "convenience", but unfortunately, because of how an increasing number of sound card drivers are being written, they do not always work. (I expect this feature will be dropped altogether in future versions of ...

Just a couple of ideas.

Have you got a reasonable amount of free space on your hard drive?
Have you got a recent "restore point" from when Audacity was working?

Good luck with it. I look forward to hearing how you get on.

Great stuff, and thanks for posting how you fixed it - it can be a big help for anyone else with the same problem.

Looks like a standard reply to me, but seems to indicate that it's not a "known problem" on this board. You probably don't have as much old computer junk lying around as I do, but if you do have an old hard drive anywhere, you could try disconnecting your main hard drive, temporarily conne...

ziko_72 wrote:maybe I should remove all traces in registry?

If you do, set a restore point and back up the registry first.
I had a strange problem caused by a bad VST effect some years ago, and that's exactly how I eventually managed to get rid of it (after much pulling out of hair and banging of head on table).

I just recorded 5 minutes and exported that as a WAV... 50Mb! If it is a fair test... that would exptrapolate to 600Mb for 1 hour! That's right - about 10MB per minute. What about those other settings in the WAV Quality window like dithering settings and rate converters? The dithering settings are ...

Actually I don't see your point. According to your logic since you prefer to work in 16 bit 44kHz those options to switch to different sample rates should also be moved to the preferences ? My point is that those options ARE in Preferences AND To make life better for people wanting to do what you a...