#AUDACITY ERROR OPENING RECORDING DEVICE DRIVERS#

#AUDACITY ERROR OPENING RECORDING DEVICE DRIVERS#

We'd suggest reinstalling your sound card drivers or downloading and installing the latest drivers for your sound card. If no new devices are found, it's likely there is something wrong with the sound card or sound card drivers.

This displays any device that is disabled on the computer.

Right-click anywhere in the box where the devices are listed and select the Show Disabled Devices option, so that it has a check mark.

These steps are for the Microsoft Windows operating system only. Checking for disabled sound devices and enabling any disabled devices can resolve the problem in Audacity.

Sometimes sound devices can be disabled accidentally or due to a problem in Windows. If the problem persists, move to the next troubleshooting section below. Under Choose which apps can access your microphone, find Audacity and click the toggle switch to On, to allow Audacity to use the microphone on your computer.Īfter following the steps above, try recording in Audacity to see if the problem is resolved.Under Allow apps to access your microphone, click the toggle switch to On.In the Settings window, in the left navigation pane, under App permissions, click the Microphone option.Click Start, type privacy and press Enter to access Privacy settings.If you have a computers with Windows 10, you may need to change the privacy settings to allow software to access and use the microphone on your computer. To fix this error, try the steps below in order. Audacity may also be trying to record more channels than the sound card can support. The error may also occur when Audacity is configured to use a sample rate for recording that the sound card in your computer does not support. For example, if you click Edit, Preferences, and under Devices, there would be no options available to select in the Recording Device drop-down list.

This issue usually occurs when there are no recording devices available.

Audacity error opening recording device