No Sound

[brian26260]

I have recently installed windows 7 and have now intalled Audacity 1.3.11. I have a tape deck attached through line in but when i start playback i get no sound
or any wavebars, but if i press record the wavebars appear and the sound records but still no sound. If i stop recording and play it back i can then hear the sound, can anybody put me right on this. I have also tried using version 1.3.9 but the same thing is happening. I was using windows xp with version 1.3.9 and before that 1.2.6 for many years with no problem so i am hoping there is a setting i have missed in either windows 7 or Audacity. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Brian

[richyricardo]

I have Windows Vista with Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.11-beta. I also can't figure out how to hear the record I'm recording (especially to know where a track starts and stops). But now I also have a problem of getting no sound from a recording of an album made for me (still in aup format). I exported it as a wav file to iTunes and Windows but I still can't get it to play. Does anyone have solutions for these issues?

[matt coleman]

I have the same problem. I have downloaded 1.3.9 but still no change...help!

[steve]

You should be using the latest 1.3 version (currently 1.3.11 - 1.3.12 is due to be released next week).
You have all posted in the Audacity 1.2.x part of the forum so I'll move the entire topic to the 1.3.x part.

None of you have said what kind of sond card device you are using. I'll assume that you are recording from a sound card in the computer (the situation is different with some other types of audio hardware).

Go into the Windows Control Panel and set the default playback device to the sound card output that you are using. Set the default Recording device to the input that you are using. Find the playback mixer and enable playback for the recording input that you are using and give it some volume - make sure it is not muted.

[mjakway]

I am also having trouble with no sound. I imported a file from a digital voice recorder. The files shows up and the sound wave/bars, or whatever they are called (sorry, dont know much about this stuff) are showing that the audio file is there, and when I play it the file the L/R bars are moving as if there is sound, but I am hearing nothing... I have Windows 7, and the sound is working fine everywhere else. I do not see anything muted in any way in Windows or Audacity. Any ideas?

[whomper]

I am also having trouble with no sound. I imported a file from a digital voice recorder. The files shows up and the sound wave/bars, or whatever they are called (sorry, dont know much about this stuff) are showing that the audio file is there, and when I play it the file the L/R bars are moving as if there is sound, but I am hearing nothing... I have Windows 7, and the sound is working fine everywhere else. I do not see anything muted in any way in Windows or Audacity. Any ideas?

if you are not having win7 driver issues this may help
what sound card do you have? realtek?
do you have the right drivers installed?

i am not a pc audio weenie but i had a similar problem
i found about 7 places in xp that audio is diddled
some seem to end up at the same control panel
but not all of them.

if there is a speaker in the lower right tray
click and then also right click to get to many places you can set options

be sure UNmute is chosen and the volume is at max on anything you want to use

i found a couple of places that muted and some with low volume
fixing those got my sound to work (except for mike in
with windows sound recorder but it did work with audacity)

also look at
start
control panel
sound.....
and then
system
then drill down in each of them and see if anything needs to be selected for in/out device
andor UNmute/volume max

make sure audacity choices are compatible
then use the icon in the lower right tray in the future

[whomper]

Go into the Windows Control Panel and set the default playback device to the sound card output that you are using. Set the default Recording device to the input that you are using. Find the playback mixer and enable playback for the recording input that you are using and give it some volume - make sure it is not muted.

99% of us average people have no idea where windose control panel is
or *which* panel you all keep referring to

I once found at least 7 control panels in win that diddle audio
some of them go down different rabbit trails to the same end point
but several of them do not and different paths sometimes end up with different options to choose at the end point even when it looks the same.

audacity
realtek audio manager (many tabs and options)
perhaps the driver installation too
windows sound recorder
start> settings> control_panel (is that the one?) has
>>> sound stuff> more panels
>>> system> more panels
>>> maybe games video and others do it too
don't remember where but I think I had found a couple more once

so please tell us
which are the right panels
how do they interact
is their a hierarchy? exclusive or ? majority vote? multiply the gain settings? or what??

I have three detailed xp books but none of them tell me squat
about what is really going on. i am sure people with less win experience are truly frustrated tryign to get this stuff to work.

is it possible to write a utility that just diddles the registry instead of pushing on a rope with all these panels?

can anybody provide a diagram with the total signal flow in/out/in for using the various in/out devices with/without mixing?

i see this question over and over. the docs should make explaining the control panels a priority imho.

[steve]

99% of us average people have no idea where windose control panel is
or *which* panel you all keep referring to

On XP, which is the Windowz that I've used most, it's pretty easy to find. Click on the "START" button (bottom left corner of the Desktop) and then click on "Control Panel".
I include the word "Windows" rather than just saying "Control Panel" to indicate that I am refering to the Control Panel in Windows.
I usually also include this link: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel
Can you suggest a way to refer to the Windows Control Panel that is more clear? I do a LOT of typing on this forum so I'd prefer to not get too wordy.

is it possible to write a utility that just diddles the registry instead of pushing on a rope with all these panels?
can anybody provide a diagram with the total signal flow in/out/in for using the various in/out devices with/without mixing?
i see this question over and over. the docs should make explaining the control panels a priority imho.

The BIG problem here are that there are a million different sound cards and they are all different (in the detail) from each other. The basic principals are the same:

The sound card:
One or more input sockets (various types, various signal levels, usually analogue but may be digital)
Analogue to Digital (A/D) converter.
Sound Card Driver - the software that interfaces the sound card circuits to the operating system.
Digital to Analogue (D/A) converter.
One or more output sockets (various types, various signal levels, usually analogue but may be digital)
There may be a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for making user settings of the sound card driver. This can often, (but not always) accessed through a loudspeaker icon near the Time/Date in the lower right corner of the Desktop. If this is not available, the sound card driver can be controlled through the "Windows Control Panel" (on Windows - Linux and Mac are different).

On some sound card GUIs, you select an input or output path by selecting it. On other sound card GUIs you select an input or output path by "un-muting" (de-selecting) it.
Some sound cards have built in effects - there are no "standards" for these - each manufacturer do effects differently - some sound cards do not have effects.
Some sound cards have multi-channel outputs, some have "Echo Cancellation" on the microphone input, some have "combination sockets" that allow microphone, stereo line, or SPDIF inputs through the same socket....... There are countless variations.

Most sound cards have a USER MANUAL. I've used sound card drivers where the user manual is the size of a small book. Unfortunately a common exception to this is "on-board" sound cards (sound input/output circuits built into the "motherboard" in the computer).

[matt coleman]

I get where your all coming from... iv'e checked all the sound settings. i've never had a problem with audacity before and iv'e used a few different versions. I just hope the new audacity works with windows 7.

[whomper]

99% of us average people have no idea where windose control panel is
or *which* panel you all keep referring to

On XP, which is the Windowz that I've used most, it's pretty easy to find. Click on the "START" button (bottom left corner of the Desktop) and then click on "Control Panel".
I include the word "Windows" rather than just saying "Control Panel" to indicate that I am refering to the Control Panel in Windows.
I usually also include this link: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel
Can you suggest a way to refer to the Windows Control Panel that is more clear? I do a LOT of typing on this forum so I'd prefer to not get too wordy.

is it possible to write a utility that just diddles the registry instead of pushing on a rope with all these panels?
can anybody provide a diagram with the total signal flow in/out/in for using the various in/out devices with/without mixing?
i see this question over and over. the docs should make explaining the control panels a priority imho.

The BIG problem here are that there are a million different sound cards and they are all different (in the detail) from each other. The basic principals are the same:

The sound card:
One or more input sockets (various types, various signal levels, usually analogue but may be digital)
Analogue to Digital (A/D) converter.
Sound Card Driver - the software that interfaces the sound card circuits to the operating system.
Digital to Analogue (D/A) converter.
One or more output sockets (various types, various signal levels, usually analogue but may be digital)
There may be a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for making user settings of the sound card driver. This can often, (but not always) accessed through a loudspeaker icon near the Time/Date in the lower right corner of the Desktop. If this is not available, the sound card driver can be controlled through the "Windows Control Panel" (on Windows - Linux and Mac are different).

On some sound card GUIs, you select an input or output path by selecting it. On other sound card GUIs you select an input or output path by "un-muting" (de-selecting) it.
Some sound cards have built in effects - there are no "standards" for these - each manufacturer do effects differently - some sound cards do not have effects.
Some sound cards have multi-channel outputs, some have "Echo Cancellation" on the microphone input, some have "combination sockets" that allow microphone, stereo line, or SPDIF inputs through the same socket....... There are countless variations.

Most sound cards have a USER MANUAL. I've used sound card drivers where the user manual is the size of a small book. Unfortunately a common exception to this is "on-board" sound cards (sound input/output circuits built into the "motherboard" in the computer).

control panel comes up with 38 choices on my pc
i can see at least 4 maybe 5 of them that can affect audio

you need to specify under control panel which real panel is to be used and even the subpanels if that is not clear

how about this for a model
start/settings/controlpanel/realtek/mixer/record/yadayada-unmute desired input and mute others also turn volume up to max on wheel at left

then we all wont have to guess what is to be done