Audacity working but lost all other sound on Vista

[badocka]

I got Audacity 1.2.4 last year while using Windows XP. Everything was fine until I got Vista. Installation of Audacity on my Vista OS went fine. Everything works, including sound, but now I have no sound on iTunes or Internet or any other programs. Have tried altering various sound settings but can find no fix. Surprised I found no similar posts in the forum. Can someone help?

[waxcylinder]

Are you by any chance using a USB device - a USB turntable say?

1.2.4 is now very old and the very least you should upgrade to 1.2.6 (1.2.4 has memory leaks) - or even to the beta 1.3.6 which is pretty stable now. You can get the updates from: http://audacityteam.org/ - IIIRC there have been other postings that said Vista works bettter with the beta version.

You can find info about Audacity on Vista from the Wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

WC

[badocka]

Yes. I am using a usb turntable. Are you saying a download should fix the problem? If so, which do you recommend? When I bought this last year, there were no instructions geared toward Vista, which was fine because I didn't have have it at the time. When I bought a system as a gift this year, I snagged the 'update' sheet on Vista and applied it to my system. Like I said, the turntable, etc. works fine...just having Vista sound problems.

[badocka]

I followed the links to download 1.3.6 and then 1.2.6. Each time I was directed to a page that offered only AVS Audio Editor. I downloaded and installed, but it didn't fix the problem. Suggestions?

[badocka]

Was able to download 1.2.6 from Cnet and 1.3.6 from downloadsquad. Installed both. Still no sound on Windows. Can anyone help?

[waxcylinder]

Yes now that I know that you have a USB TT I can probably help.

When you plug in a USB device like the TT that you have - Audacity (and Windows) hand over control of the sound services to the external USB soundcard that you have built-in in you turntable - both input and output sound services.

Now since your TT doesn't have any speakers you obviously won't get any sound - not even the usual Windoes beeps etc.

All that you need to do is to set Audacity and windows to retarget the sound output onto your PC's on-board soundcard (laeving the input targeted on your USB CODEC). In Audacity use Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O > Playback Device - in Windows use Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio > Sound Playback.

Note that you may need to stop Audacity and restart it for the preferences changes to take effect.

This bear-trap catches out loads of folks - myself included when I started out ......

WC