Unable to Record

[dands]

Hi

Using Windows XP. I have only recently installed & used version 1.2.6 which came on a disc with a USB connector I could link to an output on my hi-fi- amplifier and on installing everything it all worked perfectly & I made some successful recordings. I have now tried to make a further set of recordings and I get the error ". Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings & project sample rate".
I have checked my Device Manager & it shows a USB pnp audio device is recognised & working correctly. The Preferences from the Edit drop down menu, however, do not show anything in either the recording or playback drop down boxes. Both of these are totally empty. I did not remove the connections from my amplifier at the end of my previous session, and they are still properly attached. The only thing I have done this time is to connect them back into the USB audio capture device plugged into my computer, and then opened Audacity. Disconnecting & reconnecting has made no difference, neither has uninstalling & re-installing the software.

Can anybody suggest a solution please.

Thanks

Dands

[waxcylinder]

The first thing to do is to ignore 1.2.6 (which is now ancient and no longer supported/updated) - and isnstall the latest Beta Audacity 1.3.12 which you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can have 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine at the same time (but both cannot run at the same time) so you don't need to un-install 1.2 And don't worry about the Beta labelling - 1.3 is now a very mature Beta, approaching release candidate status - on most modern platforms it's actually more stable the the officially "stable" 1.2.6.

Also, as you are using a USB device, have a read of this tutorial: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... turntables

If you still get problems do post back.

WC

[dands]

Sorry for the delay in getting back, but I've been too busy to try this until today. Many thanks to waxcylinder as the fix seems to have done the trick. I downloaded the 1.3 beta & have successfully recorded a test piece from my amplifier. So I can now get on with learning a bit more about the program and start moving my records & tapes to digital!

Many thanks again

Dands

[David Small]

Hi, I am having the same problem as Dands I cannot record. I bought a Digitech Contemporary USB Turntable to record all my old records into my computor. the programm worked for a bit and i managed to record two records but now all I get is the error message that Dands got. I saw Waxcylinders reply and down loaded 1.3.12 betal but it is giving me the same problems I still cannot record, I get the same error message.

celt

[waxcylinder]

@David: have you studied the tutorial on using USB TTs frm my earlier post in this thread?

My guess is that you have your Audacity set to single channel mono - when you should be in 2-channel stereo. Go to Edit >Preferences and select the Devices tab - and in the Recording section set it to 2 channels.

WC