Recording bar blinking, not moving

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I have Windows XP and Audacity 2.0.5
Everything was working great a couple hours ago. I shut down. When I came back I tried to record and the vertical bar won’t move from the start point and is just blinking. There is no audio either.
The settings are the same as before:
Windows direct sound
SoundMax
Primary sound capture driver
2 stereo input channels.
I have restarted Audacity a few times and it didn’t help.

In addition, I just tried to import and play a song. The song was imported but the bar would not move nor play the song.

sigh…forget it. For whatever reason, it now works…sorry. It must be haunted.

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It happens often enough that we have a FAQ posting.

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

Koz

3

OK thank you.

4

Same thing on my PC.
FAQ did not solve the problem.

Found solution: reinstall Audacity 2.0.5. without additional plug-ins, usiing “reset settings” option.

5

“Reset Preferences” may help - it will change the settings mentioned in the FAQ to shipped defaults.

Removing “additional plug-ins” (whatever you mean by that) will not affect audio playback or recording in the slightest.


Gale