Audacity Forum

I know this has probably been asked a million times but recording is not working on my new computer

I recently got windows 7 and i was able to record stuff from youtube on my old XP but
1)The bar with stereo mix and microphone and line -in is greyed out (btw dont post a link to the wikipedia page. Read through it and hasnt solved anything)

2)When I click the record button an error comes up saying "error while opening sound device.please check the input device settings and the project sample rate"

Also when i go to preferences and check the bar that says devices there is nothing in the drop down. I cant select any devices even though i'm using the same speakers i was using on my old computer.

I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help me with this

If you've been reading long enough, you know that certain Operating System and computer combinations won't do that. Macs won't do that out of the box without a lot of help, for example. What-U-Hear or Mix-Out are a combined ballet between the OS and the sound card drivers. One of the common failures with Windows Vista was a sucky ballet.

"In Windows XP, I could... How come now I can't...?"

So you may be up for third party software. I use Total Recorder for Windows. You may find others.

http://www.highcriteria.com/

Koz

Sorry, just found out what was really wrong. During the transfer between my old and new computer, my dad simply brought over audacity's .exe file without actually installing it. Everything is working fine now, didn't even need to download the LAME encoder. thanks for the help anyway