Hi… i’m new here, i also using more problems like this… but Audacity it’s pretty, faster and…FREE.
I can use the last stable on my PC whit XP Sp3… i also try to lauch the last naightly version but never started, i can only watch the LOGO apears but never appening, at this point i can only force by TaskManager and kill the process “audacity.exe”
There is a mode to obain a log or similar things for report here ?
Thanks for the report.
Have you added VST plug-ins since the problem started? Or added an external audio device?
Have you tried resetting audacity.cfg to
NewPrefsInitialized=1
See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/preferences.html#stored .
Microsoft have made an exception and are offering a patch to XP users for the latest Internet Explorer vulnerability. Make sure you install the patch using Windows Update.
Gale
No… it’s first time i extract the .zip of latest nightly… and it’s never started but the last stable working whitout problems.
Late Tonight i turn on my pc with XP and i can try to add this value on CFG… i report result here.
Thanks for support.
If the alpha build still won’t start on an initialised audacity.cfg, then without changing any audio devices, launch 2.0.5 release and post the information from Help > Show Log… and Help > Audio Device Info… .
Thanks,
Gale
Ok… i’m goin to watch the .cfg.
In the first line it’s present this:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=2.0.5
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
For resetting this i need to set NewPrefs to 0 ??
Otherwise i have a similar EXTERNAL AUDIO CARDS… i have installed on pc a BEHRINGER BCD3000 whit asio support… it’s not a real external audio cards but it’s support the DIRECT AUDIO.
Try to Starts the latest stable and post here the log you suggested…
It’s the LOG of 2.0.5 latest stable:
16:25:17: Audacity 2.0.5
16.25.18: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries...
16.25.18: mLibAVFormatPath ('D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavformat-52.dll') is not empty. Loading from it.
16.25.18: Looking up PATH environment variable...
16.25.18: PATH = 'C:GTKbin;C:WINDOWSsystem32;C:WINDOWS;C:WINDOWSSystem32Wbem;C:WINDOWSsystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0;C:ProgrammiUniversal Extractor;C:ProgrammiUniversal Extractorbin;D:Programmimkvtoolnix2.6.0;C:ProgrammiATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-Static;C:ProgrammiOpenVPNbin'
16.25.18: Checking that 'D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows' is in PATH...
16.25.18: Avviso:FFmpeg directory is not in PATH.
16.25.18: Temporarily appending ';D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows' to PATH...
16.25.18: Checking for monolithic avformat from 'D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavformat-52.dll'.
16.25.19: Errore: Impossibile trovare il simbolo 'avutil_version' nella libreria dinamica (errore 127: impossibile trovare la procedura specificata.)
16.25.19: avformat not monolithic
16.25.19: Loading avutil from 'D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavutil-50.dll'.
16.25.19: Loading avcodec from 'D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavcodec-52.dll'.
16.25.19: Loading avformat from 'D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavformat-52.dll'.
16.25.19: Returning PATH to previous setting...
16.25.19: Actual avutil path D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavutil-50.dll
16.25.19: Actual avcodec path D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavcodec-52.dll
16.25.19: Actual avformat path D:ProgrammiFFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windowsavformat-52.dll
16.25.19: Importing symbols...
16.25.19: All symbols loaded successfully. Initializing the library.
16.25.19: Retrieving FFmpeg library version numbers:
16.25.19: AVCodec version 0x344802 - 52.72.2 (built against 0x344802 - 52.72.2)
16.25.19: AVFormat version 0x344002 - 52.64.2 (built against 0x344002 - 52.64.2)
16.25.19: AVUtil version 0x320f01 - 50.15.1 (built against 0x320f01 - 50.15.1)
16.25.19: FFmpeg libraries loaded successfully.
And this is the Audio information log:
==============================
Default capture device number: 1
Default playback device number: 4
==============================
Device ID: 0
Device name: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input
Host name: MME
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0,090000
Low Output Latency: 0,090000
High Input Latency: 0,180000
High Output Latency: 0,180000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 1
Device name: SoundMAX Digital Audio
Host name: MME
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0,090000
Low Output Latency: 0,090000
High Input Latency: 0,180000
High Output Latency: 0,180000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 2
Device name: BCD3000
Host name: MME
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0,090000
Low Output Latency: 0,090000
High Input Latency: 0,180000
High Output Latency: 0,180000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 3
Device name: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output
Host name: MME
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: 0,090000
Low Output Latency: 0,090000
High Input Latency: 0,180000
High Output Latency: 0,180000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
352800
384000
==============================
Device ID: 4
Device name: BCD3000
Host name: MME
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: 0,090000
Low Output Latency: 0,090000
High Input Latency: 0,180000
High Output Latency: 0,180000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
==============================
Device ID: 5
Device name: SoundMAX Digital Audio
Host name: MME
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: 0,090000
Low Output Latency: 0,090000
High Input Latency: 0,180000
High Output Latency: 0,180000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
==============================
Device ID: 6
Device name: Driver primario di acquisizione suoni
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0,120000
Low Output Latency: 0,000000
High Input Latency: 0,240000
High Output Latency: 0,000000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 7
Device name: SoundMAX Digital Audio
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0,120000
Low Output Latency: 0,000000
High Input Latency: 0,240000
High Output Latency: 0,000000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 8
Device name: BCD3000
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0,120000
Low Output Latency: 0,000000
High Input Latency: 0,240000
High Output Latency: 0,000000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 9
Device name: Driver audio principale
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: 0,000000
Low Output Latency: 0,120000
High Input Latency: 0,000000
High Output Latency: 0,240000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
==============================
Device ID: 10
Device name: BCD3000
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: 0,000000
Low Output Latency: 0,120000
High Input Latency: 0,000000
High Output Latency: 0,240000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
==============================
Device ID: 11
Device name: SoundMAX Digital Audio
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: 0,000000
Low Output Latency: 0,120000
High Input Latency: 0,000000
High Output Latency: 0,240000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
==============================
Selected capture device: 7 - SoundMAX Digital Audio
Selected playback device: 10 - BCD3000
Supported Rates:
8000
9600
11025
12000
15000
16000
22050
24000
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
==============================
Available mixers:
==============================
Available capture sources:
0 - Lettore CD
1 - Microfono
2 - Aux
3 - Linea in ingresso
4 - Telefono
5 - Uscita mono
6 - Mix wave in uscita
==============================
Available playback volumes:
0 - Wave
1 - Sintetizzatore SW
2 - Lettore CD
==============================
Capture volume is native
Playback volume is native
No. To reset the Audacity preferences you need to delete the entire contents of the audacity.cfg file except for the one line:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
That one line should be exactly as Gale stated.
ok… i try to reset this file… and retry to restart the latest beta:
After double-click on .exe i obtain the message to association of file… i click ok… and after that nothig append, i continue to see the logo “Audacity” over my desktop but the main programs never appears 
Nothing… after this failed started i come to see if the mail .cfg has been modified… now contain this:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=2.0.6-alpha-Apr 20 2014
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
WantAssociateFiles=1
[Version]
Major=2
Minor=0
Micro=6
[Directories]
TempDir=C:\DOCUME~1\utente\IMPOST~1\Temp\audacity_temp
For now i reset and using the last stable…
This is the .cfg after a clear start of latest stable:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=2.0.5
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
SnapTo=0
SelectionFormat=hh:mm:ss + millisecondi
[Version]
Major=2
Minor=0
Micro=5
[Directories]
TempDir=C:\DOCUME~1\utente\IMPOST~1\Temp\audacity_temp
[AudioIO]
RecordingDevice=SoundMAX Digital Audio
Host=MME
PlaybackDevice=BCD3000
RecordingSourceIndex=1
RecordingSource=Microfono
RecordChannels=2
EffectsPreviewLen=6
CutPreviewBeforeLen=2
CutPreviewAfterLen=1
SeekShortPeriod=1
SeekLongPeriod=15
Duplex=1
SWPlaythrough=0
LatencyDuration=100
LatencyCorrection=-130
SoundActivatedRecord=0
SilenceLevel=-50
[VST]
Rescan=0
Enable=1
GUI=1
[FFmpeg]
Enabled=1
FFmpegLibPath=D:\Programmi\FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows\avformat-52.dll
[GUI]
ShowSplashScreen=0
ErgonomicTransportButtons=1
EnvdBRange=60
Help=Local
BeepOnCompletion=0
ShowTrackNameInWaveform=0
RetainLabels=0
AutoScroll=1
TracksFitVerticallyZoomed=0
DefaultViewMode=0
SelectAllOnNone=1
EnableCutLines=0
AdjustSelectionEdges=1
CircularTrackNavigation=0
EditClipCanMove=1
Solo=Standard
EmptyCanBeDirty=1
[GUI/ToolBars]
[GUI/ToolBars/Control]
Dock=1
Order=1
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=327
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Tools]
Dock=1
Order=2
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=94
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Meter]
Dock=1
Order=3
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=338
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Mixer]
Dock=1
Order=4
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=323
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Edit]
Dock=1
Order=5
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=377
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Transcription]
Dock=1
Order=6
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=140
H=27
[GUI/ToolBars/Selection]
Dock=2
Order=1
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=717
H=55
[GUI/ToolBars/Device]
Dock=1
Order=7
Show=1
X=-1
Y=-1
W=620
H=27
[MP3]
MP3LibPath=D:\Programmi\Lame for Audacity\lame_enc.dll
[SamplingRate]
DefaultProjectSampleRate=48000
DefaultProjectSampleFormat=262159
[Quality]
LibsoxrSampleRateConverter=1
DitherAlgorithm=0
LibsoxrHQSampleRateConverter=3
HQDitherAlgorithm=3
[Locale]
Language=
[FileFormats]
CopyOrEditUncompressedData=copy
ExportDownMix=1
AllegroStyle=1
SaveProjectWithDependencies=ask
[AudioFiles]
NormalizeOnLoad=0
ShowId3Dialog=1
[ExtendedImport]
OverrideExtendedImportByOpenFileDialogChoice=1
[Spectrum]
FFTSize=256
WindowType=3
MinFreq=0
MaxFreq=8000
Gain=20
Range=80
FrequencyGain=0
Grayscale=0
[Warnings]
FirstProjectSave=1
DiskSpaceWarning=1
MixStereo=1
MixMono=1
CopyOrEditUncompressedDataAsk=1
[Ladspa]
Enable=1
[Nyquist]
Enable=1
[VAMP]
Enable=1
[Prefs]
PrefsCategory=9
[Window]
X=-4
Y=-4
Width=1032
Height=742
Maximized=1
Normal_X=0
Normal_Y=0
Normal_Width=780
Normal_Height=620
Iconized=0
I have only modify some value like add the lame and ffmpeg path…
Ok, so we can see that the alpha version is stalling after setting:
TempDir=C:\DOCUME~1\utente\IMPOST~1\Temp\audacity_temp
and before setting:
[AudioIO]
One of the differences between the stable version and the alpha version is that the latter has experimental support for WASAPI and WDM-KS enabled. These can provide better sound card performance and more flexibility than the older WDM / Direct Sound options, but unfortunately the drivers for some sound cards are buggy with these technologies. Due to these stability problems only the “loopback” option for WASAPI is enabled in the release version and WDM-KS is disabled altogether.
Sometime updating the sound card drivers can solve these problems and allow the alpha version to run.
There is some information here about checking and updating drivers: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers
What happens if you disconnect the BCD 3000 and launch the 2.0.6-alpha?
What drivers from http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCD3000.aspx are you using for the BCD 3000? If you have 32-bit XP you may be best with the older http://www.behringerdownload.de/B-Control_download/BCD3000-Vista-XP-1.2.0.0.zip .
Gale
i never tryed to lauch beta whit my BCD3000 Shutted down… otherwise yes… i have this driver installed…
EDIT
Can post… i have shutted down my BCD3000… reset the preferences file… and try to start the last beta (now the 04-jun-14). Same things… on XP this never started…
EDIT 2
I have also try to reset my .cfg… same things… this is the .cfg after a fail start:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=2.0.6-alpha-Jun 4 2014
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
[Version]
Major=2
Minor=0
Micro=6
[Directories]
TempDir=C:\DOCUME~1\utente\IMPOST~1\Temp\audacity_temp
Then as Steve suggested, the WDM-KS support in the alpha build is probably upsetting the SoundMax built in audio.
You could investigate if you have the correct drivers for SoundMax: Missing features - Audacity Support . The drivers should be supplied by the motherboard or computer manufacturer.
After ensuring you have the correct drivers, click the Windows Start button then type:
dxdiag
in “Run” and hit ENTER. Save and attach the report. Please see here for how to attach files: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-attach-files-to-forum-posts/24026/1 .
Other than that you could use 2.0.5, or uninstall SoundMax in Windows Device Manager and use the BCD 3000 as your audio device, or build the 2.0.6-alpha without WDM-KS support.
Gale
I don’t really need to use the beta 2.0.6 for moment and it’s useless i try to compile it 
the 2.0.5 have all i need to do…
Othewise i already check… i have all driver updated… there’s no exist more recent driver i have already installed… i also can upload the report of “dxdiag” in this same reply if you thinks it’s usefull for obtain a final 2.0.6 version i can use correctly.
DxDiag.txt (45.5 KB)
Thanks for the dxdiag report. It appears to show that the Driver Provider for the SoundMax device is “Analog Devices”, so it’s not merely a generic Microsoft driver. Do you have a branded computer like Dell or HP or did you build the computer yourself? Where did you get the driver from?
We’re not currently planning to enable WDM-KS for 2.0.6 release - if we did enable it, it would have to be optional with a way for the user to enable or disable it.
WDM-KS is enabled in alpha builds for diagnostic purposes.
If you have the most appropriate drivers for the SoundMax I could probably give you a special build of Audacity that would write a log file of what happens when Audacity’s PortAudio interface queries the SoundMax device. It would not solve the problem for you, but might give us some diagnostic information on how we could avoid the freeze on launch, or how we could at least make Audacity ignore SoundMax if it’s not compatible with WDM-KS. We can’t make devices WDM-KS compatible if they are not.
Please let me know if you want to try that. Thanks for your help.
@Steve if you are reading this, were you in a similar position with some sound device on an XP computer?
Gale
I had a similar problem on Windows Vista. “Audacity 2.0.5” (release version) worked perfectly but “Audacity 2.0.6 alpha” crashed before it started. The problem was resolved by updating the sound card drivers (downloaded from the PC manufacturer’s website).