Audacity Forum

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.

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

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

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