Help for Audacity on Windows.
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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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kozikowski
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by kozikowski » Tue Jul 05, 2016 1:29 am
Version 2.21.
Audacity doesn't make a 2.21. There are bogus versions of Audacity out there with "funny" numbers.
You can get Windows Audacity 2.1.2 from here.
http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
If you want to start "clean," select Reset Preferences and Settings during the setup.
Koz
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by roverny » Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:19 am
kozikowski wrote:Version 2.21.
Audacity doesn't make a 2.21. There are bogus versions of Audacity out there with "funny" numbers.
You can get Windows Audacity 2.1.2 from here.
http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
If you want to start "clean," select Reset Preferences and Settings during the setup.
Koz
Doh! Sorry, meant 2.12. Got a bit of dyslexia there.
There's something I meant to say at the beginning. I have wiped and re-installed Windows from scratch at least a couple times (it was kind of a lab system before doing all this), but again, unless I try another audio program I guess I can't blame Audacity.
Do you or anyone one else, know of one that lets you use a different output from your input?
Thanks all for the help!
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steve
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by steve » Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:19 am
roverny wrote:Doh! Sorry, meant 2.12. Got a bit of dyslexia there.
More dyslexia or do you have a fake version? There is no "two point twelve" version either.
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by Gale Andrews » Tue Jul 05, 2016 12:31 pm
You can use Windows Sound Recorder as an experiment. Fono will have to be the default recording device in
Windows Sound.
There are plenty of other applications you can try. Goldwave has a free trial and lets you choose playback and recording device.
Once again, get Audacity 2.1.2 from here http://audacityteam.org/download/windows. We don't like you having versions we don't make and are not able to help you with those.
Reinstall 2.1.2 from
http://audacityteam.org/download/windows
and enable "Reset Preferences" half way through installation. Confirm you want to reset preferences when you launch Audacity.
If that does not help, Edit > Preferences..., Recording section and increase "Audio to buffer" above 100.
Gale
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by roverny » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:41 am
steve wrote:roverny wrote:Doh! Sorry, meant 2.12. Got a bit of dyslexia there.
More dyslexia or do you have a fake version? There is no "two point twelve" version either.
No, that's just stupidity.
2.1.2
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by roverny » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:43 am
Gale Andrews wrote:You can use Windows Sound Recorder as an experiment. Fono will have to be the default recording device in
Windows Sound.
There are plenty of other applications you can try. Goldwave has a free trial and lets you choose playback and recording device.
Once again, get Audacity 2.1.2 from here http://audacityteam.org/download/windows. We don't like you having versions we don't make and are not able to help you with those.
Reinstall 2.1.2 from
http://audacityteam.org/download/windows
and enable "Reset Preferences" half way through installation. Confirm you want to reset preferences when you launch Audacity.
If that does not help, Edit > Preferences..., Recording section and increase "Audio to buffer" above 100.
Gale
Thanks Gale, appreciate it!
I'll try the Windows Sound Recorder and some of the apps and see what happens.
Right now buffer is at 1000
