Im having the same problems. Ive been using it for a while and sometimes it works fine for a month and now today it started that freezing shit again. Im recording straight on my computer, no sound card. I dont know why. Event viewer does not say anything. and yes ive tried everything else as well. This must be known to the developers of the app.
also this i the log from Audacity:
09:33:30: Audacity 3.2.1
09:33:30: sqlite3 message: (1) no such table: project in “SELECT 1 FROM project LIMIT 1;”
09:33:30: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-59.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:33:30: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-58.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:33:30: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-57.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:33:30: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
I’ve split this topic from the thread that was about Audacity 2.3.2 as it’s likely a totally different issue (Audacity 3.x and Audacity 2.x projects are very different).
That’s all normal.
The “‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)” messages just mean that you don’t have the optional FFmpeg library installed.
The “sqlite3 message: (1) no such table: project in “SELECT 1 FROM project LIMIT 1;”” always happens - I’m not sure but I think it’s just saying that the project file doesn’t exist yet (because Audacity has only just been launched).
Even when you are recording sound that is playing on your computer, there is still some sort of audio device (sound card) being used.
The usual way of recording sound playing on the computer (on Windows) is to use “WASAPI loopback”. This redirects audio data from the sound card’s output stream to the sound card’s input stream, and Audacity can then record the input stream. Obviously the input stream must exist, otherwise Audacity won’t be able to record it.
Other methods include using “virtual audio devices” (such as “VAC”, “Total Recorder”, VoiceMeeter, …)
How are you doing it?
In what way is it “freezing”? Does Audacity become totally unresponsive (including being unable to quit Audacity), or is just that the recording stops, or something else?