help with windows- new user
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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.
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powerplantdrone
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help with windows- new user
Hi all - totally bewildered - not a problem with Audacity, rather windows I believe - I can't monitor sound when looking at and playing the audacity files. They play fine when I export them to MP3. I've checked mixer levels etc. What am I doing wrong?
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Gale Andrews
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Re: help with windows- new user
What you are doing "wrong" is not answering the questions in the pink panel at the top of the page and not telling us more about what you are trying to do.powerplantdrone wrote:Hi all - totally bewildered - not a problem with Audacity, rather windows I believe - I can't monitor sound when looking at and playing the audacity files. They play fine when I export them to MP3. I've checked mixer levels etc. What am I doing wrong?
If it is just a problem with playing audio in Audacity that has already been recorded or imported, look in Device Toolbar which is outlined in red here:
[windevtool][/windevtool]
and choose the correct device (by the speaker icon) that you are trying to play to. If the green playback cursor is moving and the green playback meters are bouncing and you still can't hear sound, restart the computer.
If that doesn't help or if you are trying to record while playing, please describe the problem in more detail.
Gale
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kozikowski
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Re: help with windows- new user
Audacity can route and play sound independently of whatever Windows is doing. Use the Audacity Device Toolbar to set there playback audio is going.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/de ... olbar.html
You can also set this in Audacity Preferences.
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices.
Koz
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/de ... olbar.html
You can also set this in Audacity Preferences.
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices.
Koz