Audacity cannot see and audio device [SOLVED]

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Audacity cannot see and audio device [SOLVED]

Post by Sludgeguts » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:53 am

I cannot get audacity to see an audio device, even though there are 2 audio devices connected.
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Re: Audacity cannot see and audio device

Post by kozikowski » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:01 pm

Windows has to be able to see devices before Audacity has access.

Audacity doesn't support ASIO, so if it's an ASIO device, Audacity will not connect to it.

Audacity checks for new devices when it starts. If you connect anything after Audacity starts it will be invisible. Restart Audacity or Transport > Rescan...

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Re: Audacity cannot see and audio device

Post by Gale Andrews » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:55 pm

Have you deliberately disabled your built-in audio device and are only using external audio devices?

If not, then are you receiving "Internal PortAudio error" when you launch Audacity? If that happens, it is usually because you upgraded to Windows 10 from earlier Windows but did not update the drivers of your audio devices. See this link for how to update drivers and what to do if there are not any Windows 10 drivers for your devices: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Windows_10_OS#drivers.


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Re: Audacity cannot see and audio device

Post by Sludgeguts » Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:25 pm

Yep latest exe resolved issue thanks :D
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Re: Audacity cannot see and audio device

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:07 pm

Sludgeguts wrote:Yep latest exe resolved issue thanks :D
Can you tell us what you did? If it was something other than my suggestions, it might help other users.


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Re: Audacity cannot see and audio device

Post by Sludgeguts » Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:40 pm

Used the alpha release version.

Havent found any bugs in it.
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Re: Audacity cannot see and audio device [SOLVED]

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Jul 03, 2016 12:13 pm

I'll mark the topic [SOLVED] and lock it then. Thanks.


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