No sound and corrupted files!

[Mackem2009]

Hi

I have a few problems with Audacity 1.2.4 which I hope somebody could help me with.

The first problem is that when I installed Audacity on my computer (xp) the sound dissapeared! No sound comes out of the speakers anymore. Any advice? Is it a common side affect?

Also, another problem is that I recorded lots of vinyl AU files on Audacity and when I put them on Switch sound convertor to convert to MP3s the program wouldn't do it because it says they are corrupted. How can they be corrupted when I haven't even touched them? What can I do to un-corrupt them? I scanned them with Avast, they don't have viruses or anything either.

P.S. if there are any useful linksplease post them.
Anyway
Hope someone can help
Cheers
Mackem2009

[kozikowski]

<<<I recorded lots of vinyl AU files on Audacity>>>

I can take that part. AU files aren't sound files. They're part of an Audacity Project. Projects aren't sound files, either. To get a single, stand-alone sound file, Export rather than Save. Carefully open up each saved show and Export As WAV.

<<<Switch>>>

You have too many steps in your pipeline. If you add the "lame" software to your Audacity, you can Export any show directly to MP3 files. You only need Switch if you find a sound file that will not open in Audacity any other way.

<<<Audacity 1.2.4>>>

Audacity 1.2.4 had some really amusing problems with machine management. Sometimes it wasn't very graceful about how it worked. It is highly recommended that you upgrade to 1.2.6.

I need to wait for the Windows® people to come by to figure out the speaker problem.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

I'm assuming that you are using a USB device, right? As this is when this problem normally occurs ...

When you plug in a USB device like this your computer hands over control of all sound services to the USB device - both input and output. Since you USB TT doesn't have a set of speakers, you then don't get any sound from the computer (not even the normal Windows sounds).

All you need to do is to get Windows and Audacity to retarget the sound output onto your PC's on-board soundcard. In Windows use Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio > Sound Playback - in Audacity use Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O > Playback Device - you may need to close and restart Audacity for the change to take effect.

Many folks fall into this bear-trap when they start out with USB/Audacity - I certainly did !

WC