ACK - all kinds of issues -pausing, no sound etc

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I’ve been using Audacity for ages with no problems. Now it is a mess. It keeps pausing during recording (not related to sound activation), sound is like person is underwater and even when there is sound it records nothing - will record very low poor sound for a few seconds and then nothing. I uninstalled and reinstalled and that didnt help at all. Only thing I can think of is I ran a pc scan to remove old files etc yesterday and wonder if that somehow removed something but I am stumped. I have a lot to record today. Any help (for a pretty non techie) GREATLY appreciated!!

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What are you recording? Model numbers? Connections?

Koz

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What you’ve described is consistent with Windows
“audio enhancements”, (e.g. noise-reduction & noise-gate).

Here’s how to turn off those recording audio-enhancements …
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/disable-audio-enhancements-0ec686c4-8d79-4588-b7e7-9287dd296f72

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This fix says it is connected to properties on the mic. Not sure that would fix this. I am playing a video and the sound is fine. It records on zoom fine. It just pauses and sounds awful on audacity. I am not using a mic at all in this use case. Thoughts?

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Recording off an existing video playing on my pc. Earlier I uninstalled and then installed the latest version for Win10 so I think 3.3 something. Connected via wifi.

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If you are streaming the video, then a slow internet connection can result in poor quality (underwater) sound with drop-outs, (missing pieces).
Not caused by (or fixable by) Audacity.

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I have been using Audacity like this for years and have very strong/ fast wifi. Just tested it to be sure there was no issue. Any other guesses?

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If there is internet bottleneck throttling the data,
it need not be local to you, it could be distant.
[ If the problem is website-specific that would give the game away ].

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Played aorund with settings. Changed something to MME though I have no idea what it means, it seems to be working. I dont know how it was working and then stopped since I didnt change anything but thrilled it is working. THANKS SOOO MUCH for taking the time to reply. Love knowing there is help out in the world for tech newbies.