Device Driver Software was not successfully installed
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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.
Device Driver Software was not successfully installed
i tried installing the software that came on the disk with my cassette capture machine. but i got the message 'device driver software was not successfully installed'. so i went to the website and installed the newer 2.0.2 version. i still get the message. can anyone help? it seems to record the music fine, but when i try to play it (Windows 7), it looks like the song is playing but i get no sound. the instruction manual says to set the recording device, but since i have no icon in my tray because it wasnt installed successfully, i can't change it. i'm not too technical
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Re: Device Driver Software was not successfully installed
It's not talking about Audacity. It's talking about the software that makes the computer recognize the cassette player.
Try unplugging the cassette machine to hear the music playback. Windows sometimes thinks your music device is bidirectional and tries to send the music back out to the machine instead of your speakers or headphones.
You can also force a redirection in Start > Control Panels > Sound > Output.
I'm making some of that up. Your computer may be different, but that's the idea.
Sometimes you need that to hear what the cassette machine is doing during the capture.
Koz
Try unplugging the cassette machine to hear the music playback. Windows sometimes thinks your music device is bidirectional and tries to send the music back out to the machine instead of your speakers or headphones.
You can also force a redirection in Start > Control Panels > Sound > Output.
I'm making some of that up. Your computer may be different, but that's the idea.
Sometimes you need that to hear what the cassette machine is doing during the capture.
Koz
Re: Device Driver Software was not successfully installed
Thank you for the reply...i'm a technical moron so don't know how to fix it. looks like your software would be very helpful if i could get the computer to recognize the machine. decided to send it back but thanks for the effort. 