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Playhead won't move past initial stutter ???
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:10 pm
by cosmoshopper
MobilePre 1.1.2
Audacity 2.0.2
OS 10.8.2
This is very strange, and very consistent: In choosing either PLAY or RECORD, the playhead begins to "stutter" at the beginning of the track, but will not move forward. ???? Consquently, I can neither play nor record. Help???
Donald
Re: Playhead won't move past initial stutter ???
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:58 am
by kozikowski
Unplug the Mobile Pre. Restart Audacity. Can you make a normal recording from Built-In Microphone or Built-In Input?
Doesn't have to be any sound there. We're just looking for Audacity to not get stuck. It's possible to get Audacity installed in such a way that it can't find its cache folders.
Koz
Re: Playhead won't move past initial stutter ???
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:42 am
by cosmoshopper
Thanks Koz - I tried that, and yes, it worked fine with the Mobile Pre unplugged.
Figuring it was an issue with Mountain Lion – as it never did this before I upgraded from Snow Leopard –I installed the up-to-date driver for the Mobile Pre, but still no difference. So I'm now thinking it's hardware incompatibility between this 7 year-old MobilePre and my month-old Macbook Air. Would you concur?
Re: Playhead won't move past initial stutter ???
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:53 am
by kozikowski
I'm now thinking it's hardware incompatibility between this 7 year-old MobilePre and my month-old Macbook Air. Would you concur?
No, or not necessarily. I guess you could have a fight between UBS2 and USB3. Does the Air have real USB connections, or are they shared with something else? The Air took a lot of shortcuts to cram all that technology into a small box. I recently bought a full-on MacBook Pro 15" because I couldn't conceive of not having all my inputs and outputs. I use it for production and trouble-shooting, so it's not a casual computer.
How old are the cables between the MobilePre and the Air? Has the cat been laying on them?
Koz
Re: Playhead won't move past initial stutter ???
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:54 am
by kozikowski
Is there any way you can plug the MobilePre into anything else? Koz
Re: Playhead won't move past initial stutter ???
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:49 pm
by cosmoshopper
Real USB connections... not sure what that means. There are 2 USB-3 ports rated at "Up to 3Gbps" . According to the on-board hardware analysis, one is Hi-Speed and one is Super Hi-Speed. Is that real, or shared?
The MobilePre works just fine plugged into my 4-year old MacBook Pro.