now sound doesn't work anywhere else

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now sound doesn't work anywhere else

Post by ofearna » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:36 pm

I just installed Audacity for the first time ever

I followed steps here to finally get the sound working in audacity and now I can't get sound in any other program, including internet or windows media player.

PLEASE HELP ASAFP

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Re: now sound doesn't work anywhere else

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:39 pm

ofearna wrote:I just installed Audacity for the first time ever

I followed steps here to finally get the sound working in audacity and now I can't get sound in any other program, including internet or windows media player.
Assuming you plugged in a USB recording device, either unplug it or set Windows to use the inbuilt computer sound device as default playback device. Instructions here:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_turntables#reset


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Re: now sound doesn't work anywhere else

Post by ofearna » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:05 pm

I was checking and it changed the playback from my soundcard to "usb playback device" . I changed it back and the sound came back SO LOUD it scared the snot out of my dog. Thanks for ya'll's help. 8-)

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