Audacity Forum

I installed Audacity and followed the instructions given for unfortunate souls with Windows Vista for the installation. I get this error message:

error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate.

I've poked around the forum and on wiki and nothing I do works. Has anyone seen this message before and what can I do to fix it. Nothing has worked so far

I loved Audacity on my XP system. Unfortunately a lot of stuff on this stupid laptop won't work right if I install xp and ditch vista. I hate vista.

Everybody has seen this message before and there is no magic bullet to solve it. Even I, the compulsive, careful engineer got that once. My problem turned out to be Audacity got it in its craw to change the default number of sound channels from 2 (Stereo) to four. Change it back, restart Audacity and poof, the problem goes away.

That is the generic error when anything in the capture chain doesn't "feel" right.

That may also be a good feature request. "Can you give us a hint? Please?"

Koz