I’m just getting started with Audacity. Installed the program yesterday, today successfully made a couple of recordings. Running ver. 2.4.2 on PC with Win 10.
Problem: Just to experiment I recorded a bit of an FM radio broadcast. (I used Audio Host MME, Recording Device line in, Software Playthrough off.) The recording succeeded. However, when I tried to test the playback, I could not shut off the live feed of audio from the broadcast. Not from Audacity, anyway. I tried changing the selection for Recording Device, but the live feed continued even with the Microsoft Sound Wrapper or FrontMic selected. Finally I had to shut off the FM tuner/amp I was recording from. That stopped the live audio so I could listen to the playback without the live feed drowning it out.
Is there a way to mute a live audio feed (including from a PC browser) from the Audacity dashboard?
You must have a re-direct in there somewhere. Line-In is designed to go down the recording pathway to [Some Software Recorder] and full stop. It doesn’t normally go any further.
The speakers or headphones are designed to respond to sound from a player, internet music, or sound generator. They usually don’t cross.
Everybody on earth with a pulse wants to cross them so they can record internet shows, so you must have set that up sometime in the distant past, and that’s what’s causing this problem—as near as I can tell. You do that in Windows, not Audacity.
Thanks for responding. I’ve only been using this PC since last January. Definitely have not tried to configure the system to record shows or anything like that, not so far at least. This is my first foray into messing with audio at all.
Basically, my Win 10 seems to take the Line In signal as the dominant audio. If there is audio coming in on Line In, it overrides and conflicts with any
other audio. Seems to be a Windows peculiarity. Only a problem if I livestream from something continuously, like FM radio. But my main goal is to record WAVs from some of my LPs to then burn to CDs, so I think I can live with this glitch for now. I’m definitely not going to keep an LP playing while I try to playback recording.
I’m encountering some other problems that I’ll post in a separate thread.
Right-click on the speaker icon in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. Select “Sounds”, then click the “Recording Tab”. Click on “LIne-in”, then “Properties”. Then select the “Listen” tab. Is the box “Listen to this device” selected? Try de-selecting it.
No, I don’t know if there is any way for Audacity to control this behavior directly.
Thanks for these suggestions. I tried this. The choices were labelled a bit differently, but I think they were basically what you were referring to. I selected:
Sound — Input — Line in — Device Properties
Advanced device properties — Listen [tab]
The Listen to device box was NOT selected, so I didn’t change anything, just backed out of these Sound settings windows.
May not be a problem for my effort to digitize LPs, however, since unlike continuous FM feed, turntable must be shut off at end of recording.
Experimenting with this, however, I’ve found a different problem with my Line in which I will describe & post in a separate thread.
Thanks for posting back. 