Can't record with Windows 7

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rodave
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Can't record with Windows 7

Post by rodave » Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:38 pm

I just had my computer upgraded from Win XP to Win 7. Before the upgrade, I could record audio with Audacity with no problems at all regardless of the source of the recording. Now with this same computer that has been upgraded to Win 7 and nothing else changed, when I hit the record button, I get the message "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate." I have no idea what this means and what I need to do to fix the problem. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

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Re: Can't record with Windows 7

Post by kozikowski » Sat Apr 12, 2014 1:43 am

[regardless of the source of the recording.
When people say that, they usually mean "I can't record from YouTube any more." Yes. Win7 made it more difficult to do that.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... und_device

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