playback device settings and the project sample

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I can’t get Audacity to play any imported audio. It comes up: “Error while opening sound device. Please check the playback device settings and the project sample rate." Anyone know of a fix for this? I have uninstalled Audacity twice and restarted computer with no luck. All I want to do is bting a audio file into Audacity and edited down to make it shorter. This is very frustrating! Running Audacity 2.0.6 and Windows Vista.


Any help would be appreciated.

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You can get that error if you Import a sound file, but Audacity is trying to send your speaker or headphone sound to a device it doesn’t understand (like not your speakers or headphones).

You can set this in the Device Toolbar (attached). The speaker icon should have a sound device you actually own. I’m not a Windows elf, so my settings will be different from yours, but that’s where to look.

There may be instructions for this. I’ll look.

Koz
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Scroll down to “Why can’t I hear…”

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html

Koz

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All I want to do is bting a audio file into Audacity and edited down to make it shorter.

Just to rain on your parade a little, you may not want to do this in Audacity. If your original music is an MP3 or other compressed (internet) format, Audacity will likely make the sound worse after you get done. Audacity doesn’t really edit MP3. It converts the work to a very, very high quality internal format and then edits that. It has to make a whole new MP3 when it gets done and so the honky, bubbling natural MP3 sound distortion gets worse, sometimes a lot worse.

If all you need to do is cut the heads or tails from a piece, you may want to use a “real” MP3 editor which doesn’t cause damage.

The list of those editors is here somewhere…

If you have a personal live performance in very high quality WAV format or Audacity Project format, then yes, go for it. Audacity was designed to do that.

Koz

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Here it is. Scroll down.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Lame_Installation#lossy

Koz

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What is the best free music editing program? Audacity worked good for editing until this happened. No distortion.

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Audacity.

Try this in the FAQ: Audacity Manual