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You can disable the microphone or turn it down to zero in Windows' Sounds panel. But maybe I have misunderstood your question. If you select the correct external input for recording an external source, that external input should not by default be picking up the internal mic. If the external mic por...

Hello. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and installed Audacity 2.0.5. every track I try to play whether it's *.WAV, *.MP3 or *FLAC only results on popping crackling vinyl record hissing. I saw one post on this issue http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=300365#p300365 and switched from default to I...

My playback device is coming up as Boom2Device. I have Boom as an EQ for my computer speakers but do not use it through my monitors. How do I delete this as a playback device? Audacity cannot control this. If you cannot configure which playback devices Boom works with, then your only option is to r...

Have you tried rebooting? It is possible that is needed for the xattribute change to take effect. Gale Im having the same issue as well, only after following the advice from page 1- i am now seeing the plugins listed in the "add/remove plugins" window... but after clicking "enable&quo...

But where do you find WASAPI? As I said, it doesn't show up in the audio host menu on my version of Audacity. That is because you have such an old version of Audacity (2.0.1). The WASAPI host was introduced in Audacity 2.0.4. So if you are determined not to upgrade, you can't use WASAPI. But upgrad...

Meantime here is the FAQ about the error - please see if it helps: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_errors.html#sound_device . If you are using a USB device it could be as simple that you pulled the USB cable out by accident. Reconnect the cable, and if necessary, use Transport > Rescan Audio ...

Other tracks constantly showing little clocks all over after an ill-advised sync-lock. Cannot move just one track without moving all, yet the undo menu never seems to show a remedy for undoing that sync-lock. Can't find a reference to it in the FAQs. I thought there were undos on everything all the...

@Steve/Gale: do you think this is a bug? I've just checked on Windows, and yes it's a bug (doesn't happen on Linux), and it's been around for a very long time (reproducible in Audacity 1.3.4 on Windows XP). Testing on XP (the only version of Windows that I have available: Normally, main menu items ...

the directories were created, but they had all been set read-only, and so was the target (parent) directory. Apparently, this is happening before Audacity attempts to write. It is not a full read-only, but shows as a solid blue block rather than a check mark. This a common cause of confusion, but t...

I just checked and my drivers are up to date. I believe I am using the built in sound device Are they the correct drivers from your computer manufacturer's web site? Device Manager may tell you the drivers are up to date, but that is only according to the drivers database that Device Manager can fi...