Audacity crashes in vista

[Barabas]

What do I have to do? I reinstalled the program already, this is the crashreport vista gave:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: audacity.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 455814e4
Fault Module Name: audacity.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 455814e4
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000b7ec
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1043
Additional Information 1: a8df
Additional Information 2: 64bfaeaafce120f50147bc7548aa4b46
Additional Information 3: 3299
Additional Information 4: fe00fb91f485ca3d5015e144f7394fd8

What can i do?

[steve]

Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3, it is reported to work much better on Vista.
Read this before you install: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

[alpine85]

I am getting the same exact problem. I'm using Audacity on a Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Premium to record live concerts at an Open Mike night I frequent. I'm using an M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB interface with a couple of Fostex mics, and recording simple two-track stereo files. M-Audio has a Vista driver for this device and it is installed.

It took me a long time to get the sound devices aligned properly in Vista, but I got it to where I was recording. However, every time I hit the "stop" button to stop recording, I get the error message listed above. This happens with shorter files (~5 minutes) as well as longer files (~1 hour).

In some cases, I've been able to salvage the recording by using the Audacity Recovery utility, other times all I get is a loud hum as audio when playing back.

I don't have the laptop in front of me, but I'm pretty sure I already have the latest stable version of Audacity loaded. I will check when I get home from work.

I'd rather not have to retreat back to XP Pro. Thanks for the information available here in this forum; it is greatly appreciated.

-Sean

[steve]

I don't have the laptop in front of me, but I'm pretty sure I already have the latest stable version of Audacity loaded. I will check when I get home from work.

No, not the "stable" version - the "beta" version.
In spite of the name, the beta version is pretty stable, and on Vista is more stable than the "stable" version.
The developers are close to releasing the 1.4 version, which will be based on Audacity 1.3 and will be the new "stable" version.