Error while opening sound device.

[northboard]

I just downloaded Audacity and the two plug-ins. I can drag a song from iTunes to Audacity and that seems to work. When I go to play the song I get an error message. If I play with settings under devices and then play the Audacity that will cause it to stop responding and have to be shut down.

The message when I press play is Error
Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device and the project sample rate.

Please help as I have gotten more interested in this player as I have read about it. Sounds good if I can get it to work. Thank you.

[steve]

Which version of Audacity?
Which version of Windows?
What sort of sound card?
What are you trying to record?

[northboard]

Thanks for this help. Here are the answers for the questions you asked.
Audacity 1.3.12-beta(Unicode)
Windows Vista Home Premium 2007
-High Definition Audio Device
-IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
MPEG audio file imported by dragging and dropping from iTunes then pressing play in Audacity.

Thank you

[steve]

Audacity needs to have access to a recording and a playback device, but Vista has a habit of hiding/disabling recording devices so you probably need to go into the Windows Control Panel and ensure that both a Playback device and a Recording device are enabled, then restart Audacity.
See here for some information about the Windows Control Panel: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel