Hi … I have solved a problem but it’s a bit kludgy so I wonder if there’s a better way.
I have long used Audacity to directly record the audio from YouTube clips and other on-computer sources. Since 3.1 I have had various issues, and in 3.7.1 I have a new issue. In the audio-setup pulldown, I have selected the Nvidia High-def audio as the playback device and Nvidia high-def audio (loopback) as the recording device.
That used to work fine, but now if I click the Record button to start a recording without the source playing, the triangle switches to red and the Transport buttons (FF and Rew) grey out, as usual with recording, but the cursor stays at 0 seconds. If I start the source audio, the recording starts to go, but cuts off the first half-second or so of the source audio.
My kludgy workaround: Click the Record button and immediately click the Stop button, then Shift-click the Record button. Off it goes, even with no source audio. Then I can start the source audio to avoid that half-second lag on the recording.
Like I said, it works OK but seems kludgy. It’s Win 10 Home on a Intel(R) Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz; the box has 16 GB of RAM.
Audacity settings:
Transport > Options > Enable sound activated recording is not selected (I selected it and unselected it to make sure); Enable Sound Activated Recording also deselected in Preferences > Recording.
Preferences > Playback > Options > Micro-fades not selected.
Not a five-alarm sort of request, but if anyone has had this issue and fixed it, I’d be grateful to hear about it!
Thanks to all and Happy Holidays.