Please read the small print - I doubt that you have Audacity 1.2.x installed - if you have, you need to upgrade. If you have 1.3.x installed, please post in the Audacity 1.3.x part of the forum.
If you are using a USB turntable, disconnect it and reboot - if the sound does not come back on automatically, check your PulseAudio settings.
sound device gone
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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
Re: sound device gone
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Re: sound device gone
Dear Lambertus.
Things to check and report back on. For starters, uninstall Audacity and see if, when you restart the computer after uninstalling Audacity, you get any noise going. If not, try the following ideas KEEPING AUDACITY UNINSTALLED!! The idea being to get rid of the possible dodgy link and make sure the rest of the chain works. If any of the following ideas get the sound restarted, and it goes again when you reinstall Audacity, you'll know for sure that it IS Audacity that's the problem. Then we can start thinking about what Audacity could be doing to cause the problem (I say we, I'm hoping someone who knows more than I do about Audacity will come along if that turns out to be the case!) But anyway. Keeping Audacity uninstalled, try any/all of the following and see if you get any noise anywhere.
Go to Control Panel, open up your soundcard's interface and make sure all the sliders are on max (they prob. are but we're eliminating all possibilities here!) If they are, or you've now put them on max and there's still no output from anything else, go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Volume Control/Options/Properties (on the volume control tab itself) and check what's being used for playback. I don't know what soundcard you've got - if you say, I'll research it for you - but on mine there's a setting called Mon Mixer, which means Monitor Mixer, which is what plays back all the sounds it hears. (Mine's an M-Audio Audiophile 2496). Assuming the right one's selected, in the little drop-down box there might be a few options, the thing to do is to start a nice long MP3 playing in VLC or whatever you use and try out the different selections. Anyway. Assuming the right one's selected, in the larger white box on the same tab there should be three, or possibly up to five, little boxes to check. The larger white box is called 'Show the following volume controls'. Make sure they're all selected, then make sure they're all on MAX.
Then do a restart. I know that shouldn't make any difference, I also know how WIndows sometimes doesn't pick up on changes you make while it's on, changes which, in theory, it SHOULD pick up on! So just to shut me up, do a restart. If you hear the little Windows tune when it restarts, bingo, you've hit the jackpot.
If not, it's back to Control Panel again. Click on Sounds and Audio Devices (or double-click, whichever of the two brings up the little dialogue box with the row of tabs along the top). Click on the Audio tab and make sure the right output is chosen under Playback devices, and under Recording devices. If there's more than one, just put the MP3 on again and try out the different ones. If one of them works, then great! If not, then post the make of your soundcard and I'll research it for you and find out what the optimum settings SHOULD be and post them here for you.
If I do that, and you STILL get no joy, we'll have to hope there's someone around with a few more braincells than I've got because I'll be flat out of ideas! But I'll still have another think for you.
Yours respectfully
ulrichburke
Things to check and report back on. For starters, uninstall Audacity and see if, when you restart the computer after uninstalling Audacity, you get any noise going. If not, try the following ideas KEEPING AUDACITY UNINSTALLED!! The idea being to get rid of the possible dodgy link and make sure the rest of the chain works. If any of the following ideas get the sound restarted, and it goes again when you reinstall Audacity, you'll know for sure that it IS Audacity that's the problem. Then we can start thinking about what Audacity could be doing to cause the problem (I say we, I'm hoping someone who knows more than I do about Audacity will come along if that turns out to be the case!) But anyway. Keeping Audacity uninstalled, try any/all of the following and see if you get any noise anywhere.
Go to Control Panel, open up your soundcard's interface and make sure all the sliders are on max (they prob. are but we're eliminating all possibilities here!) If they are, or you've now put them on max and there's still no output from anything else, go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Volume Control/Options/Properties (on the volume control tab itself) and check what's being used for playback. I don't know what soundcard you've got - if you say, I'll research it for you - but on mine there's a setting called Mon Mixer, which means Monitor Mixer, which is what plays back all the sounds it hears. (Mine's an M-Audio Audiophile 2496). Assuming the right one's selected, in the little drop-down box there might be a few options, the thing to do is to start a nice long MP3 playing in VLC or whatever you use and try out the different selections. Anyway. Assuming the right one's selected, in the larger white box on the same tab there should be three, or possibly up to five, little boxes to check. The larger white box is called 'Show the following volume controls'. Make sure they're all selected, then make sure they're all on MAX.
Then do a restart. I know that shouldn't make any difference, I also know how WIndows sometimes doesn't pick up on changes you make while it's on, changes which, in theory, it SHOULD pick up on! So just to shut me up, do a restart. If you hear the little Windows tune when it restarts, bingo, you've hit the jackpot.
If not, it's back to Control Panel again. Click on Sounds and Audio Devices (or double-click, whichever of the two brings up the little dialogue box with the row of tabs along the top). Click on the Audio tab and make sure the right output is chosen under Playback devices, and under Recording devices. If there's more than one, just put the MP3 on again and try out the different ones. If one of them works, then great! If not, then post the make of your soundcard and I'll research it for you and find out what the optimum settings SHOULD be and post them here for you.
If I do that, and you STILL get no joy, we'll have to hope there's someone around with a few more braincells than I've got because I'll be flat out of ideas! But I'll still have another think for you.
Yours respectfully
ulrichburke