I suddenly cant hear anything at all

Submitted by peflator on April 23, 2008 - 10:57am

my volume control appears to be correct. other applications are making noise. no error messages. whats going on??

sessions still load, etc..


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Do the (green) bars on the

Do the (green) bars on the Meter toolbar show motion, indicating that you are processing a signal when the scrubber is playing across the track?

Two things to check very quickly --
Check the "output" volume on the Mixer toolbar (has the icon of the speaker, "input" has the icon of the mic).

On the little control panel to the left of the audio tracks, check the top "Gain" slider to make sure it is not all the way to the left, and make sure you didn't activate the "Mute" button. (Although if you did that, the track would be grayed out, and pretty obvious you had muted it.)

A third thing to try is go to menu Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O, and make sure the correct inputs and outputs are selected (whether that be line-in, mic, sound-mapper, whatever.)

none of this worked. there

none of this worked. there is no green in the meters and no way to get it back.. :(

uhoh, sounds bad

Sounds like for some reason the audio-in signal is not getting to Audacity.
Try checking Windows Control Panel >> Audio Properties > Volume Control > Options > Properties, and make sure you have the correct Mixer Device selected for playback, and in the Volume Control tab, see if anything has been muted.

The only other thing I can think of right now, is to delete Audacity and re-install.
(if you have any .aup project files, make sure they don't get deleted.)

You might want to try the Audacity forum
http://www.audacityteam.org/forum/

(I've been trying for a year to get Audacity to record streaming audio with no luck, it just won't work with my integrated RealTek sound chip, but could record fine when I had a SoundBlaster card. All other playback and editing work just fine. Sadly, the forum didn't help me.)

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.....

Try doing a full reinstall

Try doing a full reinstall of Audacity Portable. Delete the current Audacity Portable installation first. if you have made many changes to the default settings, create a backup of your AudacityPortable/Data folder before deleting.

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