WAV file not playing in Audacity 1.2.6 with Vista Home Basic

[bertran]

I jsut installed Audacity 1.2.6 on my new Vista laptop to do some simple sound recording.  I opened a couple of sound files to check playback and when I hit the play button, I heard a quick pop and saw the volume meter jump and that was it.  No playback.  I see the file and waveform.  When I hit shift and play, the timeline marker appears to move along the timeline, but all I get is a constant digital noise.  In the I/O section of Preferences, I have tried both Microsoft Mapper and Speaker/Headphones and Microphone selections, both with the same results.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[anthony330]

Hi I've just done the same to a Vista laptop and getting the same result, did you get anywhere with it?
Thanks

bertran wrote:

I jsut installed Audacity 1.2.6 on my new Vista laptop to do some simple sound recording.  I opened a couple of sound files to check playback and when I hit the play button, I heard a quick pop and saw the volume meter jump and that was it.  No playback.  I see the file and waveform.  When I hit shift and play, the timeline marker appears to move along the timeline, but all I get is a constant digital noise.  In the I/O section of Preferences, I have tried both Microsoft Mapper and Speaker/Headphones and Microphone selections, both with the same results.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[bertran]

anthony330 wrote:

Hi I've just done the same to a Vista laptop and getting the same result, did you get anywhere with it?
Thanks

I never really got to the bottom of why Audacity would not play existing files.  After I made this post, I tried recording some new wav files and it worked fine, both in record and playback.  I haven't an answer to why it wouldn't play existing samples.

[anthony330]

You might be able to help then as I've just tried to record straight from a turntable. The recording seemed to work fine but when I import it as Raw Data and hit play, I just get that 'pop' noise you described or it may be the first beat of the tune? I've just updated my soundcard driver as recommended but that hasn't made any difference. Am I doing something obviously wrong?
Thanks.

bertran wrote:

anthony330 wrote:

Hi I've just done the same to a Vista laptop and getting the same result, did you get anywhere with it?
Thanks

I never really got to the bottom of why Audacity would not play existing files.  After I made this post, I tried recording some new wav files and it worked fine, both in record and playback.  I haven't an answer to why it wouldn't play existing samples.

[bertran]

Anthony,

You've got me.  I wish we could get someone else with more knowledge/understanding of the situation to respond.  I think the pop sound was just the inability of the software to play the file.  I'm a little fuzzy on what you mean by raw data.  Is that a wav file or some other format?  

I wish I could be more helpful.  I know enough just to be dangerous.

Ross

[anthony330]

Ha ha that sounds a bit like me!
From the project menu there is an option called import raw data, however that is now irrelevant as I've managed to set it up right now to play and record (don't exactly know what I did though).
My problem now which you might be able to help with is when I choose Export as MP3, it does it but I can't find where it's then saving it. I've looked in the location it tells me it's going to and there's no sign!
Any thoughts?
Thanks.

bertran wrote:

Anthony,

You've got me.  I wish we could get someone else with more knowledge/understanding of the situation to respond.  I think the pop sound was just the inability of the software to play the file.  I'm a little fuzzy on what you mean by raw data.  Is that a wav file or some other format?  

I wish I could be more helpful.  I know enough just to be dangerous.

Ross