I make audio playlists for myself in lieu of making mix CD’s, of which I used to do and today began a project that I built in 2011 onto CD and realized it is not in the best of shape. Could not be played in my CD player, but can be read by the optical drive in my desktop no problem.
Went to record all the vinyl tracks from my stereo via a Scarlet 2i2 digital interface to convert analog to digital as the Scarlett intercepts laptop that I keep by the stereo most of the time connected to a docking station so the Scarlett stays connected, even if I’ve taken the laptop on a trip somewhere.
Anyway, issues arose when after the update to audacity, it defaulted to the microphone of my webcam (built in) was the “default” when it should not have been, then set it to the Scarlett, and that’s when the error came up.
I tried changing settings in preferences, using MIME, WASAPI or direct sound, these last two from Windows, nothing, even checked to see if both input/output was set to the scarlet (they were) but I cannot get it to not show the 9996 error. I even unplugged the USB to the scarett at the docking station to see if resetting fixed once connection established, nope, neither did a reset of Audacity and a rescan seem to do anything.
UPDATE: Tried all setting to no avail, even did an uninstall/reinstall of 3.7.5, still can’t see the Scarlett 2i2 and still gives the 9996 invalid device. I even did a reboot, no go. Thinking all this rebooting/reinstalling etc would do something but no. It worked before the update, now while I can play, I can’t record. Both input and output are line in/out using RCA/1/4 inch adapters to the tape loop. windows sees the signal from the Scarlet fine, but Audacity appears not to.
A few things I forgot to mention. One is this scarlet is a first gen 2i2, no scarlet driver, just the Windows audio driver, and yes, I can play music from it, just fine, but cannot record from the stereo, signal stops at Windows it appears. I have the same setup in the office on a desktop, though the Scarlett is a 2nd gen with Scarlett driver but it seems to distort on playback periodically, both systems run Win 11 and it records/plays fine, tested it yesterday and has been playing YT videos all day today.
Just a few minutes ago, finally got around to testing again at the laptop, a Dell Latitude 3390 2n1 and in the process, tried to see if there is an audio driver for it, none listed but an update for the WiFi card, and it’s off warranty now (built in 2019). I bought it refurbished with Win 11 Home on it.
Does Listen To This Device work? (That’s testing the Scarlett as an input device, playing the sound from your vinyl records, or whatever, out to your regular speakers or headphones.)
Usually, if Windows is getting a signal you can record it.
No, had not done that, and didn’t know it was available. Will try that. The only other thing is the audio driver for the laptop and/or the docking station and I got those, but not gotten to installing yet.
I did try this, this morning and now, I get the error 9999 error and saw a solution to hopefully fix it, it’s for unanticipated host error, so essentially Windows is not letting it through so Audacity can use it.
Your original suggestion didn’t work, but it I think now gives me the 9999 error, so, some progress, I think?
SOLVED: In a suggestion from yesterday from DVDoug for the error 9996, and a solution for Windows 11 (which I run) and it simply says go to the settings/sound and test your microphone, so played what was on my table and it saw it in Windows, but for some reason, I got a 9999, which is the unanticipated host error and found a solution for that.
Essentially in the RUN command line, type in ms-settings:privacy-microphone into the line and hit enter and it took me to privacy and security section of settings and an option for let desktop apps access your microphone. For some reason, it was turned off. May have been a Microsoft update turning that off, or Audacity but once on, it now sees the output of the Scarlett just fine.
So now I can say, it’s solved and now can resume with playlist projects.