Audacity Forum

I just tested it and you're right. The newest drivers have a non-working "Multi" input and are missing the Mon. Mix. input which (I believe) records all the outputs mixed down to stereo, aka the speaker output. These new drivers are a big step backwards in terms of hardware surround sound setup, as ...

Weird.

I'll PM you with my email address. The limits on file uploads for this board are a bit ridiculous, but email will work.

shinnen, If you're thinking of taking a screen shot of a waveform and converting that to an audio file, it can't work unless you've only got a few hundred samples in the waveform. Even then, you'll have trouble finding software to do that. For the average file, a single pixel's worth of display migh...

I still can't select more than 2 channels in Preferences without getting "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate." however. To be a bit more explicit, this error means that your sound card driver is not providing enough channels. Either ...

Audacity will not let you edit audio when it's Paused. You have to click Stop before making any edits. Is that the trouble you're having? I also don't have a button with the arrow dragging a small black box on a wire (the tool that would let you change levels - I'm guessing) The Envelope tool (which...

Audacity will do that. You just have to make sure you use Stop and not Pause to stop playback. You can't edit audio while Paused.

Why would you come to the help forums and ask for new software rather than ask for help?

It's almost certainly not a configuration issue. It's almost certainly a poorly designed/built sound card clock. Try recording at a different sample rate and see if that helps. Most sound cards run natively at 48000 Hz, so in order to get them to run at 44100 Hz (the one you're most likely using), t...

Can you open other wav files? Can you use Audacity to create a wav file (even if it's just silence) and then re-import that? You also said that Audacity is opening a 16-bit file at 32-bits. This is because Audacity converts all audio to the format you choose in the edit -> preferences -> quality men...

In the edit -> preferences -> audio i/o menu do you have the right output device selected?

This is probably happening due to an Audacity bug. If you convert the sample rate of a file to something different during output, Audacity adds silence to the end of the file. If you want to convert several files, I suggest using r8brain, it's freeware for windows that will do easily sample rate con...