Preferences????

[Zach610]

When i go to Edit > Preferences...It crashes Audacity. Here is a pic

http://i39.tinypic.com/jv6sl5.png

im using Windows Vista Home Basic. My computer meets all the requirements (above and beyond)

[kozikowski]

While you have it open, can you capture anything and play simple sounds?

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

Pull down any of the three piano clips and see if they play. They're really short and guaranteed correct.

Do you have a lot of External Stuff hanging from your machine? USB Turntable? USB Sound Production Equipment? Video equipment? Skype?

Koz

[steve]

That will happen if there are no recording devices available. Go into the Windows control panel and make sure that there is an available recording device. See here for details: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ng_devices

[Zach610]

No...it crashes the application...I cant do anything with it, except clike the "Yes" button on the message that comes up saying that it crashed.....Now, if i DON'T click preferences, and try to get into that menu...I can do anything with it. everything works, i tried a lot of stuff with it, but the second i go to Edit > Preferences, to customize Audacity to fit my needs, it just crashes.

no, i don't have any external devices hooked up to my computer at all.


Well, i dont have any recording devices available (no microphone, or anything like that) you mean i cant use adacity without a recording device????

[Zach610]

NEVER MIND.....it works now.....Thank you, stevethefiddle. That helped alot.....Its fixed now

[steve]

NEVER MIND.....it works now.....Thank you, stevethefiddle. That helped alot.....Its fixed now

Care to tell us how?
(I don't have Vista, but a lot of other forum users do)

[Zach610]

NEVER MIND.....it works now.....Thank you, stevethefiddle. That helped alot.....Its fixed now

Care to tell us how?
(I don't have Vista, but a lot of other forum users do)

Well, i went to Control Panel > Sound > Recording > And enabled the recording device....

Here is a pic, of what i mean http://i41.tinypic.com/zwi26q.png

[steve]

Thanks for the confirmation Zach