Suddenly getting this error message.
Re installing didn’t help
{
“timestamp”: 1658652818,
“event_id”: “5850501e02921547afa9b83c64400420”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.1.3”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.19044”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error”,
“value”: “Error opening recording device.\nError code: 0 Success.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}
}
One user with this error reported success after changing MME to WASAPI.
I’m getting the same, or very similar error:
“timestamp”: 1659425198,
“event_id”: “96be8d4aa553f84a9db147c0eea6c63b”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.1.3”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.22000”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error”,
“value”: “Error opening sound device.\nTry changing the audio host, playback device and the project sample rate.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}
}
This is on a new system, purchased at a local Data Doctors shop a couple of months ago. The sound quality was poor and would degrade after a few minutes. Finally elected to upgrade to a SoundBlasterX AE-5 internal card. They got it working great in the shop, but found out they only piped the audio out through the headphone jack. I’m trying to get my ancient outboard Logitech 5.1 Z-5300 speakers to work with the new system & SoundBlaster card. I’d prefer to stay with a speaker set that has 5.1, which the SoundBlaster card is supposed to do, but I will step down to a 4.1 or 3.1 setting if need be.
It should be noted that I can play music from the web without much difficulty, but once I import a piece of music into Audacity, it will show up on the 2 channel display, but the moment I attempt to play it, I get the above error message. Already uninstalled/reinstalled Audacity, no joy. Any help/suggestions appreciated.
Resolved (I think): Noticed the follow up message to the original post that switching from WASAPI to MME fixed his problem. Tried it, and it worked!
Too quick to hit the Submit button, my bad…