[ale] Secrets of Audacity!

[Charles Shapiro]

Uuh, amarok is fine, I use it too.  Audacity is good if you want to
**edit** your sound.  Doing that without being able to play it is
often problematic.

-- CHS


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Tue February 9 2010, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>> Since starting a music podcast ( http://eelfighter.podbean.com ) I
>> have been playing with Audacity 1.3.9 a little bit.  But when I loaded
>> a sound file into Audacity and tried to play it, nothing would happen
>> -- I mean, like, the cursor wouldn't move, and no sound came out even
>> though it went into play **mode** and the edit parts of the program
>> were greyed out.  Google was not helpful.  Eventually I discovered
>> that "software playthrough" under the Tracks menu was checked. When I
>> unchecked it, everything worked correctly again.  Further, you can go
>> into
>> Edit->Preferences->Recording and make sure it's off by default.  Now I
>> am a Much Happier Camper
>
> I just looked, and I have 1.3.5. beta ( Debian Lenny). software playthrough
> was unchecked, and I don't think I've ever run the program before.. Amarok is
> my default player..
>
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