Audacity Playback or Saved files are silent. I’ve checked all sound settings, drivers, etc, and read most of the posts but can not resolve. Would appreciate help. Thank you.
You’re seeing a waveform, right?
A couple of things to check -
The playback volume slider is “hidden” under the playback meters (and the recording volume under the recording meters).
And make sure you’ve selected your speakers (or regular soundcard) as your Playback Device.
Thank you for your suggestions, Doug. I do see a waveform. All other suggestions are correct as stated. This is very odd, as a couple of years ago I never had this issue.
I get this on Playback sometimes. I thought it was just me because of my odd set-up.
I’ve found that restarting Audacity fixes it sometimes; rebooting the computer fixes it almost always; rebooting twice solves most of the remainder; and very occasionally I need to fiddle around with something else (which I’ve not yet memorised because it’s rare and success is not locked in my mind).
My set-up: because my laptop sound card doesn’t have the right options, I run Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) to grab the sound and route it through to Audacity’s input. So basically the “normal” laptop speaker output goes silent but Audacity gets clean input. Strangely that doesn’t usually stop Audacity providing audible playback when not recording. Just sometimes I get a playback waveform but no actual sound, even though I didn’t change any settings from 5min before. I’ll stay alert next time and see what I do to fix things.
PS: Using VAC might no longer be necessary - I started back under Win 10 or poss even XP when Lenovo changed the sound card options. At that time I needed yet another piece of software to route input to VAC but I discovered that was unnecessary on a new Dell a couple of years ago. I guess I might find even VAC isn’t needed now if I actually bothered to research. Apologies for rambling on.
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