Audacity Forum

chrispou wrote:Ok... everything works for saving the documents... I can save them now...

Good. Can you say what the problem was? It may help others to know.



Gale

Hi,

You guys helped me yesterday with a lot of issues... you helped me resolve so many things... the microphone issues, the saving date issues, in .aup, in MP3... etc...

Today, I'm ready to start recording... So I plug my Meteor Mic in my computer (USB cable from microphone)... I unplugged it before I went to bed yesterday. This morning, I plug it in again in order to start recording. I press on "Record" and this message comes up : " Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate"...

I did not change anything from the settings that were chosen yesterday... and the project sample rate is the same as yesterday : 44100.

My computer is a MacBook Pro.

Hope you can help me with this... I can't wait to start doing my work...

Thanks.

The order is important. Plug the USB mic in before you open Audacity. Allow your computer a few moments to recognise the USB device before you launch Audacity.

Oh, ok... I opened my program and then I plugged my microphone in.

Thanks. It's working now.

Thanks so much.

chrispou wrote:Oh, ok... I opened my program and then I plugged my microphone in.

That'll explain it

There is another way to get Audacity working with the USB device if ever you do that again: In the Transport menu is an option "Rescan Audio Devices". If you select that option and wait a few moments then Audacity should then be able to see the USB device (I'd generally recommend that you get into the habit of plugging the USB device in before you open Audacity, but it's nice to know there is a workaround in case you forget.)