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Can you play a CD or DVD on your PC - does it play with sound?

Is the Playback meter bouncing green bars?

Is the blue waveform showing as you play?

What Playback device do you have in the Device Toolbar: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/de ... olbar.html

jackinct wrote: Yes, please add my 'voice' to the list of those requesting an autosave feature.

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More than suggestions there's a whole Tutorial in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/re ... ables.html

It's part of this Tutorial set: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... to_cd.html

WC

steve wrote:What about the "lock" file (if it exists)? Is that deleted? I think it should be because that can prevent Audacity from launching.

+1

I do seem to recall this still coming up occasionally on the Forum as a problem for users

Peter

Ed, I think you've over-complicated this and thereby made more work for yourself. This is not work, this is fun! Hahahaha I think a very good start would be one (sledgehammer) button in Preferences (perhaps below the "section" list) and one external sledgehammer. +1 - yes a very good star...

No, not right now - but I would value that too and that's why I included it in the Proposal I wrote in the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Proposal_Timer_Record_Improvements The developer who wrote Timer Record originally is interested in pursuing this further, but is very busy on other Auda...

USB device ??

If so see this FAQ in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... k.html#usb

WC

See this FAQ in the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... s.html#nwf

WC

Ed, I think you've over-complicated this and thereby made more work for yourself. I thought what we were discussing just providing was two buttons per pane, one to reset all the Prefs shown on that pane and the other to reset all the Prefs. I'm not sure about the need the finessing of being able to ...