On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:47:17 +0000 (GMT)
Jim Lesurf wrote:
On 15 Feb, wrote:
In article , Davey
wrote:
If Audacity refuses to even run you may have to look at its config
files or remove and re-install it if you can't find settings to
adjust.
Not sure if this will help, but just in case...
All help is welcome!
You should have something like an .audacity-data directory, inside of
which will be an audacity.cfg file. That is the default Audacity will
check when it is run. In my main machine's copy it includes
[AudioIO]
RecordingDevice=HDA Intel PCH: STAC92xx Analog (hw:0,0)
Host=ALSA
PlaybackDevice=HDA Intel PCH: STAC92xx Analog (hw:0,0)
Which tells Audacity what to try and connect to by default when run.
It then uses these as the default recording and playing devices.
Make a backup copy of the file for safety. Then do an 'aplay -L' and
'arecord -L' to get the details of your soundcard devices. Edit the
audacity.cfg file to point at the sound devices you want have have
the host as ALSA. That *might* cure the problem.
Following advice I found in the Audacity Forums, yesterday I found that
file, and deleted everything except the first line, then relaunched
Audacity. It is supposed to repopulate the file with info. when it
restarts, but it didn't restart. And of course, I didn't make a backup
(slaps own wrist!). I might look through my Backup records, though, just
in case.
But I don't think it's going to work anyway.
I have also tried Completely removing, and reinstalling, audacity,
already.
I'll give arecord a go.
--
Davey.