Help for Audacity on Windows.
Forum rules
This forum is for Audacity on Windows.
Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the
1.2.x and
1.3.x forums.
-
steve
- Site Admin
- Posts: 80694
- Joined: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:43 am
- Operating System: Linux *buntu
Post
by steve » Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:51 am
jaqrah wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:21 am
Do you know of any maintenance tasks that take 6-8 hours?
I once had a Windows update that got stuck. It would get so far, then the installation of the update would freeze. Eventually the update would time out, then a short while later it would try again. The symptoms were that Windows became noticeably slow for about half an hour, then it would be OK for about half an hour, then slow again, and so on. 2 days later I managed to fix it by manually installing a later version of the update (manually downloaded from Microsoft website and then running the installer).
Perhaps worth looking through the Windows update history.
-
jaqrah
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2020 11:50 pm
- Operating System: Windows 10
Post
by jaqrah » Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:44 pm
The update history does not reveal anything telling.
I am wondering if there is some other program that I am unaware of in the background that is accessing Windows WASAPI? Would two different programs cause a conflict?
-
steve
- Site Admin
- Posts: 80694
- Joined: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:43 am
- Operating System: Linux *buntu
Post
by steve » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:25 am
jaqrah wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:44 pm
Would two different programs cause a conflict?
It will if WASAPI is being accessed in exclusive mode.
-
jaqrah
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2020 11:50 pm
- Operating System: Windows 10
Post
by jaqrah » Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:04 am
Just a shout out to Steve for all of his assistance! Thanks!
With all of our brainstorming, I finally located the source of my issue. It appears there is a conflict between Audacity and Musicbee, both programs use WASAPI.
To resolve conflict: Open Audacity>Open Musicbee>Play any track in Musicbee library>Stop the track, but leave Musicbee open>Audacity works perfectly!
