no sound but green bars move

[fsk]

I can't get audacity to play any sound no matter what choice I pick for output. Sound work on all my other applications. I've done some research and I'm unable to find a way of making this work. Anyone who has any ideas please send them my way.

[kozikowski]

If you're playing to a USB speaker system or sound system, make sure you plug it in and get it working correctly before you open Audacity.

What's the sound system? What's the sound or music? What's the job?

If you have Audacity bouncing sound meters working, then Audacity is throwing the sound to the machine...or somewhere, we just have to straightened it out.

Have you restarted the Mac? Is it a laptop? Can you play to the built-in speakers?

My Mac can change the speaker volume depending on what it thinks is plugged in. If one of the options is turned all the way down, that show will be silent.

Koz

[fsk]

Thanks for your reply. I tried all the obvious things (at least obvious to me). I tried restarting, I also tried removing audacity and associated Library files (at least I hope I found all of them) and still no go. One thing I should mention is that I moved from a mac mini to my new workstation using the apple migration tools so could it be possible that audacity kept some old settings? I don't have internal speakers so I can't test that.

As far as what I tried playing I tried a mp3 file and a ogg file neither worked.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer any help. I really like Audacity and miss using it.

[steve]

I don't have internal speakers

What do you have?

[kozikowski]

I tried a mp3 file and a ogg file neither worked.

If you have the sound meters bouncing, we expect Audacity to make noise. Doesn't matter what the sound file is.

I moved from a mac mini to my new workstation

Workstation? I know how Minis work. I'm on my second one. "Workstation" sounds dangerous. Audacity doesn't always do well with network connected facilities. It doesn't understand network delays and negotiation.

Describe the system. Pretend I'm trying to buy one.

Koz

[kozikowski]

What does this bar look like on your machine?

[fsk]

I tried a mp3 file and a ogg file neither worked.

If you have the sound meters bouncing, we expect Audacity to make noise. Doesn't matter what the sound file is.

I moved from a mac mini to my new workstation

Workstation? I know how Minis work. I'm on my second one. "Workstation" sounds dangerous. Audacity doesn't always do well with network connected facilities. It doesn't understand network delays and negotiation.

Describe the system. Pretend I'm trying to buy one.

Koz

Sorry I was vague, I have an old Mac Pro (one of the towers) but it's been seriously modified (upgraded processor, added 2 nvida graphics cards). I don't know if this model came with an built in speaker (I'm assuming it did) but it doesn't have one anymore. For speakers I have a very run of the mill left/right and subwoofer plugged into the the onboard soundcard. Every other app that makes noise works (even garageband).


As far as how the bar looks it looks pretty much like yours but I did notice I have two options for "built-in output" (neither work).

Thanks in advance for your time, I really appreciate it.

[Gale Andrews]

We can't help without better information.

Look at Audacity > About Audacity... . What does it say (all three numbers)?

Post the contents of Help > Audio Device Info... top right of Audacity.

Attach a screenshot of the output tab of Mac Sound Preferences (like Koz's image).

Please see how to attach files to forum posts.



Gale

[kozikowski]

Shift-Command-3 will do a screen grab. Shift-Command-4 will let you draw a box around something and capture that. That's where I'm getting most of these pictures from.

Koz

[cyrano]

Weirdness. Any chance the Mini was of a more recent build than the Mac Pro?

Try resetting the PRAM.

You do that by restarting and holding command - option - p -r keys after the boing. But I guess you probably know that if you upgraded CPU's on a Pro