Installed Audacity - no more browser audio

[saskgui17]

Hello all

I am a newer user to Audacity and am very frustrated with a particular problem that I hope someone can shed some light on.

When I installed Audacity and opened it I noticed that I was unable to hear any sound from my browsers. My applications such as WMP and VLC were still playing audible sound however anything from a browser, IE, FF or Chrome would be silent so no audio from Youtube or any other online video/audio site. This problem persisted after I had closed Audacity. I restarted my Windows Audio service through the services.msc and also changed the output device in Audacity to something other than the Soundblaster Card all to no avail. The only way to recover my sound from browsers is to reboot my CPU.

This is quite troublesome. I searched the forum and found a similar post however with no resolution. My OS is XP however this is happening on a 7 machine as well.

Please help.

[kozikowski]

When I installed Audacity and opened it I noticed that I was unable to hear any sound from my browsers.

You missed an important step. Could you hear Audacity playback?

The suggestion, since you went directly between those two is you are trying to record on-line video sound from, say, YouTube? In order to do that, you have to invoke Stereo-Mix, What-U-Hear or one of the other Windows services that turns playback sound around for recording. Not all computers can do that.

Forget the browsers for a minute. Does Audacity perform a simple recording and playback from your built-in microphone after you restart the computer?

Koz

[waxcylinder]

Are you using a USB device - like a USB turntable or a USB soundcard?

WC