No recording device found-motherboard chip set up

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello All, I’ve been around Win OSs a long time—since MS-DOS. However, I am a neophyte at sound editing. I am using Win 7, 64 bit Home Premium Edition. I used the .exe installer. No recording device is detected.

In Device Manager, under Sound, video and game controllers, it shows in order: 1() AMD HD Audio Device 2) Intel Display Audio, 3) Realtek HD Audio. It is a year 2000 Dell Studio XPS 8100. It came with “THX TruStudio PC”, Intel i5 3.2 GHz CPU, 8GB SDRAM, 1 TB Western Digital hard drive. You were not allowed to add a stand alone sound card while configuring this sled, this “THX TruStudio PC” was the only option.

I can record .WAV and .WAV Lossless files, .WMA files, .WPL files, etc… I ripped the CD to the HD in WAV Losless, and can play it back no problem. Some of the options in the various drop down Menus are greyed out-- I am wondering if this is because it could not find a recording device.

Will this software work with a motherboard mounted chip as the recording device? Any responses greatly appreciated.

JM :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

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Please use paragraphs when you write. It is difficult to read otherwise, and many people just won’t bother reading a solid block of text.

Look in the Windows Sound Control Panel and in the Recording tab see if any devices are listed.
You may need to “Show disabled devices” and “Show Disconnected Devices”.

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Will this software work with a motherboard mounted chip as the recording device?

Yes. As long as the drivers are installed, it should work.

It’s pretty-much like a printer… The manufacturer-supplied Windows drivers provide a standard interface between any Windows word processor and the manufacturer’s unique hardware.

I am wondering if this is because it could not find a recording device.

What are you trying to record? With the normal soundcard/soundchip in a desktop computer, you should be able to record from the mic-input, or the line-input. (After Audacity “finds” the device.) And depending on the drivers, you may also be able to select “Stereo Mix”, or “What-U-Hear”.

I ripped the CD to the HD in WAV Losless, and can play it back no problem.

Does that WAV file play in Audacity, or only in something else like Windows Media Player?

If you want to edit your WAV file(s), you don’t need to “record”, you just open the file. Audacity isn’t a ripping program, so you did the right thing by ripping to WAV with another program before you edit in Audacity. (Audacity doesn’t burn CDs either.)

You were not allowed to add a stand alone sound card while configuring this sled,

What? You should be able to install a PCI or USB soundcard, as long as you have the Win7-64 drivers.

Most regular USB soundcards are plug-and-play “class compliant” USB audio devices and will work with the already-installed Windows-supplied drivers. (But, most consumer USB soundcards only have a mic-input and headphone-out, and are worthless for high-quality recording.)

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Hi DVD doug and steve Thank you for the replies. Steve-- I forgot to mention the version of Audacity, it is 2.0.5, and used the .exe installer. I thought my post used paragraphs, there was a longer post I didn’t save as a draft, went back to sign in, and of course I lost it. That may have had run on sentences, but anyway, with your and DVDdoug’s responses I am closer to an answer.

I am trying to edit a recording existing on a CDR. I postulated I could transfer the CDRs content to my hard drive in WAV lossless format, edit the recording while playing it back from the hard drive, save the edited version, and then burn the edited version to a new CDR. Is this possible?

When I said “I was not allowed to add a stand alone sound card”, that referred to the options that were available when configuring the PC online @ Dell. This “THX TruStudio PC” was pre-selected, I imagine the price was low because they had a number of systems already partially configured, and wanted them cleared out of inventory. I did get a fantastic price on it. Doug and Steve, now that you know what I want to do, and what equipment I have, is it possible doing it the way I proposed, or is there another way? I am attempting to eliminate approximately (10) 2 seconds or less is length “squeals” on a recording that is already great in quality, but eliminating/attenuating these “squeals” would make it perfect. By song 9 out of 17, the problem is corrected, they found a bad connection at the rhythm player’s guitar.
Many Thanks Again, RM

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Use a “CD Ripper” for that (for example, EAC or C-Dex. There are many others).

You can’t edit “while” playing, because Audacity does not do “real time” processing.
You would “Import” the WAV file. Edit it. Then “Export” a new, edited WAV file.
See here for a tutorial about basic editing: Audacity Manual

For that you would use a CD burning application (such as CDBurnerXP, or Nero. There are many others).
If you want the CD to play on a normal CD player, ensure that you select to create an “audio” CD. (“Data” CDs will play on computers, but many CD players will not play them).
Windows Media Player can burn CDs but lots of people have problems doing so, so I’d recommend that you use a proper CD burning program rather than WMP.