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I think we're talking at cross purposes here, I meant Audacity V. 2.1.1, not Mint! My version of Mint is 17.1.

No, it's not a laptop; I have a pair of speakers plugged in with a jack connection. I've just checked in System Settings and found that Bluetooth doesn't appear to be enabled "No Bluetooth adapters found" and that "HDMI/DisplayPort Built-In Audio" is not selected. When I do select it in order to test the sound, it doesn't work anyway. So my output is "Analogue Output Built-In Audio" and that works fine on the test. But not on Audacity obviously!

What "project rate" are you using? (bottom left corner of the main Audacity window). The default is 44100.

What "project rate" are you using? (bottom left corner of the main Audacity window). The default is 44100.

Yes it's 44100.

I'm running out of ideas.

Try resetting the Audacity preferences (With Audacity closed, find the hidden file "~/audacity-data/audacity.cfg" and delete it.)
Ensure that no other audio applications are running.
Then start Audacity and set the recording and playback devices in the device toolbar to the "hw" option that corresponds to your sound card (probably "hw:1,0" from what you wrote previously).

Wow! I think that's worked! Been too busy for the last 10 days to do anything, but Steve I've just seen your last post, deleted audacity.cfg, left the playback device on default and the problem's gone. Brilliant, thanks so much! I just hope it will help to stop Audacity crashing on me as well ?!