Did Listen To This Device work? Just to be clear, that should work without Audacity or any application. If Window isn’t getting anything, Audacity isn’t going to work.
As alternatives to Audacity you can try ocenaudio (free) or GoldWave ($60 USD for a lifetime license after free trial).
Maybe the USB audio interface has died.
Is there not a direct technical support team at Audacity?
There is not. 
If nobody on earth has this same problem, it’s possible that it’s going to stay a problem forever.
One diagnostic trick is to peel away the machine changes you made in the order they were applied.
With reference to the beginning of this message thread, can you disable OneDrive?
From DVDDoug: Does your music start working if you listen in Windows with Audacity off?
From SWAG Engineering (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess). Do you use Skype, Zoom, Google Meat, or Multi-Player Games? All of those packages take over your computer sound services. Just turning them off doesn’t always work. This brings us directly to the Clean Shutdown.
Koz
Are you singing to musical accompaniment and where is that coming fron?
Koz
Yes to Windows playback. Recording with Audacity stopping after 27+ minutes is my issue.
And no, I’m not recording while using Google Chrome or another search engine.
Thanks for the input. I think I’ll have to try the clean reboot Koz recommended. I’ve already begun “peeling” back the layers and need to disable One Drive to see if that’s the culprit.
Again, thanks for everybody’s help and suggestions! If I’d known Audacity didn’t have technical support I probably wouldn’t have installed it. Ocean and Reaper have been suggested here, so may remove Audacity and move to another recording app.
David
If you are recording to a FAT32 formatted drive, the maximum file size that can be stored is 4 gig.
Thanks. The largest mp3 file I’ve created so far after recording is less than 200 Mb.
Before you can export as MP3, Audacity records as 32-bit uncompressed PCM. At 44.1kHz, that’s about 20MB per minute. (More at higher sample rates.)
disable One Drive to see if that’s the culprit.
You shouldn’t have to disable it, but you shouldn’t be using it “live” with Audacity. You should be recording to your internal NTFS or ExFAT hard drive. And Audacity should be using your internal drive for temporary storage while Audacity is running. And if you are making Audacity AUP3 project files they should only be saved-to and open-from your internal drive.
You can back-up to an external drive or to the cloud, etc., but you should move the project file back to your internal drive before working on it “live”. One Drive (or a thumb drive) should only be used for back-up or other “storage”.
That’s my silly joke. You can use external, network, internet, or cloud drives all day long, you just can’t let Audacity catch you doing it.
There another drive note. You can set up Audacity to perfectly record you singing to an existing music, backing, or rhythm track on your internal drive. Now suppose you decided to use your cloud drive instead of the internal one … and it’s three time zones away. Good luck with that.
Internet connections are not just two wires hooked together. When you send something, the far side may identify damage and ask you to send it again. Not the best idea when you’re trying to record music.
Desperation Method. Change Something. Almost doesn’t matter what. If you have a video or a movie on your machine, move it somewhere safe and delete it.
Clean Shutdown isn’t the only thing you can do to make your drive neater. Have you ever done an Optimization or Defragmentation?
My Google Search for Optimization hit but decided to present the information… in Dutch.
Fijne dag
Koz
Google one or both of those to find out how to proceed, I have no idea why the Google response turned up in Dutch.
Hey John! You’ll never guess what Google did to me the other day.
Koz
Google drives are actually FAT32 formatted, and thus are subject to the 4 gig limit I mentioned earlier.
Audacity will not let you use a FAT32 formatted drive, but Google drives are hidden by a layer of abstraction that prevents the program from knowing about it.
Could that snap us straight back to disabling the network until you resolve this?
Peel services, applications, and files back until you get a reaction.
Koz
Hi folks,
Tried “peeling back the layers,” the clean reboot and mysteriously found mic connections missing that were there the day befor, and no it wasn’t missing driver updates.
Took laptop, which I bought almost a year ago, but not out of warranty yet back to Best Buy. They confirmed a mic hardware failure and have sent it out to their Tech Repair in KY. Should know something in 10-14 days.
Finally, I have 3 weeks of old shows on a thumb drive to submit to my syndication network, and have access to my One Drive files through my wife’s laptop.
BIG THANKS to Koz, DVD Doug and WRECK for your advice!
DavidDJ
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