Audacity Forum

Audacity seems to tie the Output Volume slider directly into the operating system's global wave volume level. It was all messed up in Audacity 1.2, but in 1.3 it works perfectly so it would appear to be intentional. However, since I also use my PC for music and videos, I don't really want Audacity's playback volume to screw up everything else on my PC.

This seems to be a basic Windows failing, as Winamp's out_wave has the same problem. However, out_wave is prehistoric, long since replaced with out_ds (DirectSound) which no longer has such a ridiculous limitation. I have Windows 2000 and DirectX 9, so I see no reason why Audacity should be restricted to primitive Windows audio APIs.

Is this just me, or does this drive anyone else mad, too?

The good news, I guess, is that the slider is now properly synchronised in 1.3, so I won't turn Audacity's level down and find that it just turned the system UP to deafening levels and blew out my eardrums.

I searched for this same issue and this is the only post I found so far. Unfortunatly, no one has replied to this.

I'm using Audacity 1.3.12-beta on Windows 7 Ultimate.

I hope that the Audacity developers will be able to connect the output volume to the "application" volume and not to the whole system volume (speaker volume?). Most media applications and games have independent volume control. But then again, audacity can listen to the the system audio or just the line in. I'm sure there's a technical reason for this issue.

The only work around I've found is to open Window's "Volume Mixer" and find the Audacity application volume there and turn it down. It's annoying even if it's a minor issue.

Maybe I can put a short-cut to the mixer on my desktop. Hmmm...

Not too sure whether it's the same problem, but here goes:

I recently bought a new PC with Windows 7 and installed the latest version of Audacity. After trying to record a mix, I had no sound at all. My speakers work and everything in Windows seems to work. I even brought my computer back to the shop where they checked and tested everything they could and the only thing they could come up with was: it seems to be fine, Windows shows that there is sound, so the sound card is OK and everything in Windows is OK. I am afraid Audacity somehow messed something up and the only advice the people from the shop could give me was to reinstall Windows.

Can anyone help? I hope there's a solution without having to reinstall Windows.

DJFreez, are you recording from a USB device such as a USB turntable?

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes I am, I have a Numark TTUSB, BUT I removed the USB cable from my PC, as I had already found out that it also causes such a problem. Still, no sound from my PC.

Have you rebooted the computer?

See this tutorial: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... turntables

WC

Thanks, but it doesn't solve the problems. Nowhere on the internet can I find anything about this problem. I wanted to record some stuff on my computer, used Audacity and plugged in a mini jack to record a mixing session, but the sound just 'disappeared' from my PC. Checking everything, nothing seems wrong, apparently the system detects sound, but my speakers, which work fine, won't give me any sound. It looks like Audacity somehow changed something, like settings or whatever, that switches of the sound or something, but I just can't figure it out, nor can any more techncally skilled people. I mean, if even the people from the computer shop can't solve it, something must be wrong....