Audacity Forum

Defragmenting was one of the first things I tried--no luck with that. Shutting down my anti-virus software didn't change anything. I don't think I installed anything that would affect it. I got a new scanner and monitor not too long ago. Now Audacity 1.3.4 I have had better luck with! I made several...

For awhile, it would just crash sometimes, but lately it's crashing almost 100% of the time. I was about to say 100% of the time, but after playing around awhile I did stop a five-second recording successfully. I couldn't do it again, though. Deleting temporary files doesn't have any effect as far a...

The driver update seemed to go fine, but I still can't stop a recording. I do have x64, of course. It's strange that this just started. As I said, I'd used it for over a year with no regular problems. Is there anything else to do to track this down? I can upload the Windows error report if it would ...

I have a Creative SB Audigy soundcard. The current drivers are Version 5.12.8.1164 from 12/8/2005, which does seem old. I've used Windows Update to move up to Version 6.0.1.1241 from 12/12/2006. And now it wants me to restart my computer, so I'll see what happens.

Are there any more ideas about this? Is there a debugger that would give more details?

I found the temp folder, but it was already empty. I tried deleting the folder itself just in case. Audacity recreated the same folder when I restarted it, and still hangs when I stop a recording.

Hey everybody. I've been using Audacity to record cassette tapes for over a year now, and have generally had good results. But just the last few days I keep getting hangs. I'll start recording and everything will proceed as usual, with the waveform appearing on-screen. But once I click on the stop b...