STREAMING AUDIO PROBLEMS
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:21 pm
I cannot record streaming audio on my desktop but audacity works fine on my laptop. I'm using the beta version on both. The desktop is a Dell XPS which has both an internal SigmaTell sound card and an external EMU 0404 USB sound card. When I open Audacity, the mixer toolbar does not display stereo mix or anything like that but does include wave, sw synth, cd player and digital audio interface. Digital audio interface seems like it should be the right one. I set the sound control panel to EMU 0404 for both recording and play back. I also set the Audacity I/O pref to the same. Now, the record vu meter doesn't register anything at all but I can control the volume of the EMU 0404 with the play back volume control! In the help menu, it says "stream is active unable to gather information." So, I'm confused and confounded. Any thoughts about how to proceed from here? BTW, I checked for driver updates but I have the latest. Also btw, I did try switching everything to the internal sound card - both on the control panel and the I/O pref - same results. What seems odd is that the EMU 0404 is still playing the music, it doesn't seem to care that I want the internal card. Oh well, I switched back to the EMU 0404 and hope you can help. Thanks. Dale