Recording doesn't work on Audacity

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1

I’m using Audacity 375 on my new Windows 11 compuer and I can’t make it record.

Everytime I push the recording button I get an error message. Unfortunately I can’t make a screen dump since my current photo program doesn’t work on Windows 11 either.

But the error message for Audacity looks like this:

{
“timestamp”: 1761464493,
“event_id”: “155bec857b5b24469901aff1be87ff19”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.7.5”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.26100”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error”,
“value”: “Error opening recording device.\nError code: 0 Success.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}
}

So what is wrong?

I can open and play a previously recorded song but I can’t record anything.

How can i fix this, I really need this program to work now!

2

What are you trying to record from? Your laptop’s mic? A USB turntable or USB cassette deck? Streaming audio?

Make sure you’ve selected the correct Recording Device.

3

I was trying to record from Youtube.

4

Recording Desktop Audio.

Select WASAPI and the loopback device where the sound is coming out (usually your regular soundcard).

And start playback before you start recording. WASAPI can record a silent audio stream but it can’t record “nothing”.

5

Windows 11 (as did Windows 10) contains the “Snipping Tool” program which lets you take “photos” of your screen (or a part thereof).

6

I’ve found out that it might be the computer which is the problem, not Audacity.

When I checked the system, I realized that the sound goes “out” but it won’t go “in”.

Not even Microsofts little recorder is usable.

The advice I get from the system is “add an input device”.
But from what?
And what shoul I add.

I’m not a professional sound engineer an I don’t want to meddle with thins I don’t know about and ruin the whole system, especiall not when I have been suffering from a terrible flu for three days with high fever wich makes me so tired and confused that I can hardly think.

And it’s annoying that this ASUS Expertcenter or what the name is has ben equipped with such a lousy sound system with no advice at all how to fix this.

As soon as I’m free of this flu, I’m gonna take a visit to the shop where I bought it and demand the money back if I haven’t fixed the problen before that.

However, I’m grateful for all help I can get when it comes to this problem.

7

Now, Windows 11 weird system for taking screen dumps has also changed and no information about it.

That made me think that a photo editing program I installed also didn’t work in Windows 11.

When i tried to take a screendump the usual way with the “print screen” button, nothing happened. I thought that the photo program was faulty or not compatible with Windows 11.

I was about to remove it and lay another problem on y heap of problems when I saw you post here. So I started to investigate and found that Windows 11 has a different way with this with screen dumps so now i have to push alt+print screen.

And I wonder why? It has worked fine for so many years, why change it.

8

Problem solved!

Just before midnight, it came to me like a vision.

I decided to activate the “Stereo Mix” option.

After doing so, all of a sudden Windows sound recorder was working.

But not Audacity!

However, I discovered that it was possible to choose the WASAPI option which hadn’t been possible before and then Audacity worked as it should.

And I’m happy for that!

I guess that the severe flu which I’m suffering from since a couple of days made it difficult for me to think, otherwise it wouldn’t have take n three days to sort this out

Thanks to you who helped me solve thos problem. Your contributions were important! :melting_face:

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