I can't seem to record anything. Ihave gonethrough help, on-line help, faqs, etc.
I have tried all of the recommended fixes and toggeled all of my toggles.
I will admit, Iam not the most tech savy person.
I have tried all of the configurations in Audio I/O.
I have gone through all of the settings (per the help instructions) in the "Sound and audio devices" of my Control Panel, as well as all of the settings in "Sound effects manager".
The device plays back when I import sound files, but if Itry to play a sound file off of another player (i.e. windows media, or a streaming file) it will not record.
he issue does not seem tobe limited to Audacity. The built in recorder (Windows) does the same, as well as a sample recorder that I down loaded.
It is as if I cannot record anything that I can play. Could something be wrong with my sound card or it's driver?
Any help, thoughts, ideas, would be greatly appreciated!
Frustrated and lost!
Records a flat line and plays back nothing
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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
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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.
Re: Records a flat line and plays back nothing
What you are trying to do, and can not do, is to record sounds tat are playing on your computer, as described in this article: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... e_computer
What you have not mentioned:
You are using a Laptop PC?
You are using Vista?
You have a SigmaTel on-board sound card?
Also check out this articles:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 870#p17870
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS
At the end of the day, ot may be that your sound card drivers do not support recording from "Stereo Mix". In some cases a driver update may fix the problem.
There have been reports from some Vista users that using a Windows XP sound card drivers has fixed the problem, but using non-Vista drivers is not recommended, so that should not be attempted until all other options are exhausted.
What you have not mentioned:
You are using a Laptop PC?
You are using Vista?
You have a SigmaTel on-board sound card?
Also check out this articles:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 870#p17870
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS
At the end of the day, ot may be that your sound card drivers do not support recording from "Stereo Mix". In some cases a driver update may fix the problem.
There have been reports from some Vista users that using a Windows XP sound card drivers has fixed the problem, but using non-Vista drivers is not recommended, so that should not be attempted until all other options are exhausted.
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Re: Records a flat line and plays back nothing
I experienced this problem whilst trying to record streaming audio and it took me some time to figure out the cause. I hope it may assist others if I outline the particular solution which worked for me.
The recording level seems to depend not only on (1) the level set in Volume Control (Recording) for 'What U Hear', and (2) the level set in Audacity's gain slider but also on (3) the overall Playback Volume control in Windows.
In my case the level on the overall playback volume control had to be set extremely low in order to stop my Wharfedale Diamond speakers blowing the roof off! Consequently, I got a flat line when recording in Audacity - even though the input level meter was flashing away (albeit at a low level).
The only solution I found was to turn off the speakers whilst recording to allow me to raise the overall playback level setting from minimum to about halfway. After this I was in business.
The recording level seems to depend not only on (1) the level set in Volume Control (Recording) for 'What U Hear', and (2) the level set in Audacity's gain slider but also on (3) the overall Playback Volume control in Windows.
In my case the level on the overall playback volume control had to be set extremely low in order to stop my Wharfedale Diamond speakers blowing the roof off! Consequently, I got a flat line when recording in Audacity - even though the input level meter was flashing away (albeit at a low level).
The only solution I found was to turn off the speakers whilst recording to allow me to raise the overall playback level setting from minimum to about halfway. After this I was in business.