Audacity Forum

I disabled the Monitor Record level by accident (newbie clicked a button to see what would happen) and I can't turn it on again.

I tried removing Audacity and downloading again and I can't get it back. What am I missing?

Otherwise, it seems to work OK, export to mp3 and all...

Thanks

Let's see if you didn't just accidentally step outside the normal signal flow.

If you press the red Record button during a performance, the red bouncing lights on the right start running and the blue waveform starts building itself, right? Then, if you press stop, and click inside the red meters, the meters will start to move without going into Record.

Do yours do something other than that?

Yes Audacity preferences tend to hang around into the afterlife. If you managed to delete one of the menu bars, you can turn them on and off in Preferences, Interface. You need to go find Preferences. It's different on different machines.

Koz

When I disabled the monitor recording levels, the meters disappeared altogether, so I could not "click in the red meters" because they did not exist.

I did go into preferences and turn it on again. Thanks.

It's realy curious how those settings hang around in the afterlife...

While waiting I downloaded the Beta version and it seems to work well. For one reason or another, the disk space available dropped by half, maybe becauase I learned how to turn on the stereo record...

<<<It's realy curious how those settings hang around in the afterlife...>>>

Uninstalling Audacity does not dump the Preference File. Mine is located:

/Users/koz/Library/Preferences/audacity Preferences

Note that it's not in the /Applications folder.

<<<I downloaded the Beta version>>>

It's supposed to be pretty cool. I don't have it because my policy is not to use unstable software as much as possible. It adds one more layer to the crash question. I like less layers.

<<<disk space available dropped by half...
...I learned how to turn on the stereo record...>>>

You don't really want me to answer that, do you?

Koz