a minor irritation

[rectek]

Hi
I am new to the forum, and in case this has not been reported before, I will share a curious problem I have with my new installtation of Audacity.

I purchased a new Diamond 5.1 surround sound card, and it came with a copy of Audacity 1.2.3

After the usual fumbling and trial and error, I got Audacity , Windows and the sound card to all agree about "line in " and so forth, and it worked for one trial recording. However, Audacity would not work each time I re-started it, until I go thru the following routine.

1- I open up the Diamond Sound card icon, which gives a window with about five options, such as "adjust mixer", "adjust surround sound speakers" and so on. The last option it shows is called "information."

2- I then click on this tab called "information." This immediately activates the record feature on Audacity. Notice, I don't actually change anything, or click on a certain box . I just open the window called "Information", and suddenly, Audacity starts working.

Maybe this is Diamond's way of making me look at their name each time I use the free copy of Audacity they bundled with the card.

But does anyone know of a way to avoid this irritation each time I try to use Audacity?

[steve]

Audacity 1.2.3 is obsolete. Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3.8 which you can download here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Audacity is free (GPL version 2 license - which guarantees that it always remains free).

If your sound card is bundled with an obsolete version of Audacity, then you may very well also have old drivers for the sound card. Check with the manufacturer to see if more recent drivers are available (you can usually download the most recent drivers from the makers web site). http://www.diamondmm.com/support.php

[rectek]

Thanks for help !