Delay before play

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I am running Audacity 2.0.5 on Windows 8.1
Whenever I either press the play button, or press the spacebar there is 5 second delay before the audio plays. This is a brand new Toshiba Satellite and I never had an issue on my old Satellite. If anyone else had this issue and fixed it or knows the reason for this problem please reply and thank you.

2

How many Audacity tracks are there stacked on top each other? Dozens of tracks will cause such a delay.

Also look at Edit > Preferences… then the Recording section. Make sure “Audio to buffer” is set to 100 milliseconds.


Gale

3

I occurs even when there is only one track and I checked and the audio to buffer is 100 milliseconds.

4

Try these links:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers .
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Managing_Computer_Resources_and_Drivers .

Exactly what sound device are you using for playback?


Gale

5

Does your hard drive light go nuts between the button push and the music?
Koz

6

Just started using it again today and the problem seems like it fixed itself. A similar thing happened just now on my old computer where it would delay after I pressed play to stop. But after a little while it went back to normal.