Audacity Forum

That mic requires 48V DC phantom power so you need a pre-amplifier for the mic and to connect the pre-amplifier to the computer line-in input if it has one (the mic input will not work). Or you need to connect the mic to a USB interface (or to an XLR to USB adaptor like Shure X2u) and then connect t...

What does not play fine are the original aiffs files created from the Testaiff file by multi exporting. OK these are the files that are about 350 kB, right? Could you possibly upload those three files here to this topic (or at least one of them). All three are already on send space. OK so you added...

It is (probably) an intermittent Audacity bug, but rebooting the computer, blasé as it sounds, should fix it.

Are there lots of .tmp files in the AutoSave folder when you clean it out?


Gale

Have you tried going into the 'Devices and Printers' menu and messing with those options? Device Manager would let you enable the sound device if it was disabled but you could also do that from the loudspeaker icon by the clock. The advantage of going there is that it lets you show and enable indiv...

If you have already tried the Realtek control panel for hidden ways to enable stereo mix, I don't have any more ideas, beyond at your own risk, you can try the latest Audacity "Nightly" development build. This supports WASAPI (Windows Vista and later) loopback recording which does not requ...

What was your most recently used folder that you could export to - the exact path to it ? If you have correctly reset Preferences then Audacity is probably trying to export to its installation folder. Where have you installed Audacity (exact path)? Are you running as administrator? If not - log out ...

Does your Sony Vaio have line-in? Most laptops have only mic-in and headphone-out. That reminds me. Sony Vaio's used to have a software switch confusingly called (wait for it) "stereo mix", which converted the mic input to a reasonably high quality stereo line level input. I don't know if...

Yes they played fine. Why would you expect otherwise? I would assume that a file which was exported multiple from Audacity but which did not play in an old iPod would play if converted to AIF in iTunes. But we don't know until people try it on their iPods, which is why I was keen for you to test th...

Edit > Preferences, choose "Directories" on the left then press "Choose..." and select a directory where you have permission to write to, such as your Desktop. Click OK. Before clicking OK in Preferences, check in "Free Space" that you have enough free space on that dri...

Does Audacity crash when you export to the folder that you used to export to? Does the crash occur as soon as the Export File window opens, or only after you press Save? What is the problem folder? Is it on an external drive that isn't working properly? Have you checked in Windows Explorer to see if...