STREAMING AUDIO PROBLEMS
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Audacity 1.3.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
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Audacity 1.3.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
STREAMING AUDIO PROBLEMS
I cannot record streaming audio on my desktop but audacity works fine on my laptop. I'm using the beta version on both. The desktop is a Dell XPS which has both an internal SigmaTell sound card and an external EMU 0404 USB sound card. When I open Audacity, the mixer toolbar does not display stereo mix or anything like that but does include wave, sw synth, cd player and digital audio interface. Digital audio interface seems like it should be the right one. I set the sound control panel to EMU 0404 for both recording and play back. I also set the Audacity I/O pref to the same. Now, the record vu meter doesn't register anything at all but I can control the volume of the EMU 0404 with the play back volume control! In the help menu, it says "stream is active unable to gather information." So, I'm confused and confounded. Any thoughts about how to proceed from here? BTW, I checked for driver updates but I have the latest. Also btw, I did try switching everything to the internal sound card - both on the control panel and the I/O pref - same results. What seems odd is that the EMU 0404 is still playing the music, it doesn't seem to care that I want the internal card. Oh well, I switched back to the EMU 0404 and hope you can help. Thanks. Dale
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Re: STREAMING AUDIO PROBLEMS
I personally think the software that came with your fancy-pants sound service killed off "Stereo Mix or "What You Hear."
That service is still there, but it's hidden in the advanced panels of Windows Setup--unless the panels aren't there any more because your software drivers stepped on them.
I'm betting if you ripped all that extra stuff out--don't just switch it off, rip it out, uninstall it--and went back to the original Windows Sound Panel, everything would return to normal--like it is on your laptop. Your only other options is to go for updated drivers for your sound products and hope the gods are happy. If you have and they're not, then that's the ball game.
You can run into similar problems if you have VOIP telephone service like Skype. Skype comes into town on a very large horse and takes over everything.
If you haven't seen this yet...
Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel
Koz
That service is still there, but it's hidden in the advanced panels of Windows Setup--unless the panels aren't there any more because your software drivers stepped on them.
I'm betting if you ripped all that extra stuff out--don't just switch it off, rip it out, uninstall it--and went back to the original Windows Sound Panel, everything would return to normal--like it is on your laptop. Your only other options is to go for updated drivers for your sound products and hope the gods are happy. If you have and they're not, then that's the ball game.
You can run into similar problems if you have VOIP telephone service like Skype. Skype comes into town on a very large horse and takes over everything.
If you haven't seen this yet...
Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel
Koz