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Restart Audacity after shutdown
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:21 pm
by Kodiak
I have been using the program for about a year and lately if I turn off my laptop and then restart and open Audacity my record mode gives me a flat line and is non-responsive to my mike system. The only solution I found was to restore the laptop to the previous day when the program was working but of late even that hasn't worked. I have unloaded and downloaded the program multiple times. Any ideas?
Re: Restart Audacity after shutdown
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:31 pm
by kozikowski
Do you have lots of good, clear, defragmented hard drive space -- although I don't actually think that's it?
Did you recently get Skype or other conferencing or "telephone" service?
Did you recently get a USB sound "thing." Can be anything: microphone, speakers, headphones, headsets.
I bet you can go into either the Audacity Preferences and select the microphone again, or go into the Windows Control Panels and force the microphone to be active there. Audacity doesn't do anything that Windows doesn't do first. If Windows is not behaving itself, you can just pack up and go home.
It's that way for all three computing platforms, but I like picking on Windows.
Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel
Koz