Voice is Recording but Receiving no Playback

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Audacity trouble-free for the past year or so but I’ve stumbled across a problem today that I can’t seem to resolve.

When recording my voice, Audacity picks it up fine but nothing plays back when I replay my voice in Audacity.

My speakers/ headphones are working fine as I can hear the notifications from my PC and other programs work fine in terms of sound, but there is no audio when my recording is played back. The only thing I can do is to save the file as an MP3 and listen back to my recording using iTunes, but I want to edit it.

After uninstalling Audacity and installing the latest version as well as searching the forums and looking on Google and YouTube, I didn’t know where else to turn. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

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Audacity can route sound independently of what the rest of the computer is doing. You can set that with the Device Toolbar.

[windevtool][/windevtool]

That’s a graphic shortcut for the Audacity Preferences Settings.

Sometimes you can plug a USB sound device in and Windows will assume it’s a speaker… And it’s not. You can go round and round with that until you figure out what’s what happened. No matter how hard you send sound out to a turntable, it’s not going to make any noise.

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Reinstalling Audacity doesn’t reset it. To get a reset you have to change an information file.

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

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Koz