[audacity4blind] Re: getting and Error.
- From: Gale Andrews <gale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:57:42 +0100
| From "jim gamage" <james.gamage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:08:10 +0100
| Subject: getting and Error.
> My soundcard is,
>
> Creative Soundblaster X-Fi xtreme.
> it is a bit old now but not ancient.
Jim,
Exactly what version of Windows are you using, and is it 32-bit
or 64-bit Windows?
My thinking is that if you never updated the SoundBlaster
drivers there may be slightly later drivers available that
could be better.
Gale
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> Sent: 10 September 2013 17:10
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> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: getting and Error.
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>
> | From "jim gamage" <james.gamage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 10 Sep 2013
> | 16:45:32 +0100
> | Subject: getting and Error.
> > Hello Gale,
> > I am the one who got the error with MME, after going into devices and
> > OK several times, the noise has disappeared,I don't know why, but I
> > still have a peculiarity, the level of sound increases slightly if I
> > go into devices and O K after loading Audacity
>
> The output level should not increase of course, unless you changed the
> output device in Preferences.
>
>
> > the program is now usable, but it gets more curious all the time.
>
> I hope that some quirks will be resolved for 2.0.5 if we update to the
> latest version of PortAudio.
>
>
> > I don't think my soundcard driver is broken, it works on all other
> > applications now and I do have two soundcards, a Realtek and a
> Soundblaster,
> > both work alright.
>
> Many SoundBlaster cards are now very old and no longer
> supported by Creative. Do you know exactly what make and
> model number your SoundBlaster is?
>
> Audacity must keep updating PortAudio (as above) so that we
> support the latest devices. Occasionally this may create problems
> for very old devices.
>
>
>
> Gale
>
>
> > It's good to get feedback, so thanks to all who have answered.
> >
> > Best Regards, Jim.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gale Andrews
> > Sent: 10 September 2013 16:06
> > To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: getting and Error.
> >
> >
> > | From David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:44:59
> > | +0100 (BST)
> > | Subject: getting and Error.
> > > Hi Matt,
> > > I'm getting the same error from time. It ends up going away, and I
> > > can't aways remember what I've done to fix it. One time it went away
> > > after I opened preferences and pressed ok. (Similar to Jim's noise
> > > problem). The other time I changed the sampling rate in the Quality
> > > category of preferences to 48000, and it went away, I then changed it
> > > back to its normal value and it was still fine. I'm not sure whether
> > > or not it's connected to having another program sending audio to
> > > another playback device.
> >
> > David,
> >
> > Are you talking here about only WDM-KS?
> >
> > A few people have said that you need to select the WDM-KS input in Device
> > Toolbar (even if it's already selected) to stop the
> > "error opening" (though I don't see that).
> >
> > One person said you had to do this with MME, but I think he may have a
> > broken sound card driver.
> >
> > If I recall, OK'ing Preferences even without making changes will have the
> > effect of exercising the device lists, so that might be the explanation of
> > what you're seeing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gale
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Matt Turner <meturner2214@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Audacity <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc:
> > > Sent: Monday, 9 September 2013, 23:06
> > > Subject: [audacity4blind] getting and Error.
> > >
> > > Hay there, I'm getting a error when trying to use the new WDM-KS audio
> > > interface I'm using 2 sound cards, i've got speech from NVDA going to
> > > my computer, and have audacity set to use my USB sound card.
> > > When i import a mp3 file just to test, i get the following.
> > > ErrorError while opening sound device. Please check the output device
> > > settings and the project sample rate.
> > > OK
> > > any fix?
>
>
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