Need help - Device is blank

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brick
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Need help - Device is blank

Post by brick » Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:09 am

Audacity was working great until I used a reg cleaner and then it did something strange to my audacity. When I go to Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O, the device drop-down is blank. How do I get it to show something (my soundcard I guess?) there?

Thanks for helping!
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kozikowski
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Re: Need help - Device is blank

Post by kozikowski » Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:17 am

Audacity keeps its operating preferences in the Windows Registry -- or at least it did until you "cleaned" it. This should let you completely remove the Audacity portion of the Registry

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... o_defaults

You'll know if you succeeded when all your Preferences vanish and it asks you "English?" at first birthday.

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fuentesmith
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Re: Need help - Device is blank

Post by fuentesmith » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:22 am

Hi brick,
Just completely remove the audacity files from the computer and also clean the registry as well. Then try to install it again.
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Re: Need help - Device is blank

Post by waxcylinder » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:33 pm

You do not need to remove the Audacity files - it is a registry/Preferences problem as Koz suggests.

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