Audacity Forum

Yes it's a Windows issue. Select "Open With" browse for and select Audacity Select the "Always use program for this kind of file" Audacity will at this stage be the default player. If you require a different player to be the default for that kind of file, repeat the above, but se...

Hardware monitoring is not an available option in the Windows version of Audacity. For MACs you can often use hardware monitoring (subject to the hardware and drivers supporting it) but on Windows you must select "Software Monitoring" to "off" (un-selected) and enable monitoring ...

Rats. So.... I can only conclude that something that has changed between the stable version 1.2 and the Beta is causing the latency. Not quite. Software playthrough will always cause noticeable latency, it can be minimised, but can't be avoided. Audio drivers for external devices (USB / Firewire) fr...

Yet another "disguise" effect is to use "Change Tempo" to make the track play much faster (say 4x faster) then use "Change Tempo" to slow it down again.

The audio drivers on some laptops are crippled and have functions such as recording the stereo mix disabled. Some manufacturers have now released driver updates to resolve the problem, so it's worth checking that. If that doesn't help, you could try installing a different audio capture device, or fi...

I'm running out of ideas on this one :( Audacity was working fine, now it isn't, so something must have changed that is now messing it up. We need to find what has changed, or find a work around for this problem. Fragmentation of the hard drive is a progressive deterioration on Windows machines, and...

MIDI is not audio, it is data that controls synthesizers and the like. A ".mid" music file will contain the note and channel information necessary for MIDI compatible media players to "play" the data by sending it to a built in or external synthesizer. If you want to edit the sou...

This is the board for Audacity 1.3.x on Windows - looks like just the place for your post :) In the Windows Mixer (record section), you need to select "Stereo Mix" as the recording source (may be called "Mix", or "What you Hear" or something similar). You should then be...

Useful information for anyone with a Dell computer with Sigmatel HD Audio: Dell decided to disable the Stereo Mix (record what you hear) options on the Sigmatel HD Audio 92xx drivers, however they have now changed their mind and the stereo mix option is now available in the latest drivers. This also...

You can only run one instance of Audacity at a time or you will get all sorts of strange problems (Audacity should prevent you from doing that). It sounds like Audacity may have frozen. Some opperations take a little time to complete - exactly how long depends on what it is you are doing and how fas...