¿¿¿ Audacity Is Killing Me ... Sound Settings ???

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Help please ... Audacity must be changing some secret sound setting automatically, because after I open it, YouTube is silent and Rhapsody refuses to play at all. iTunes is unaffected, as are the "system" sound settings. I don't get it. I feel like I have been through every menu and control panel in the OS.

Restarts do nothing (Safari or system). First this happened at home to my Dual-core Mini and now to the Intel iMac at work. Both are on Tiger. I am an old fed-up Windows defecter, but I sort of wish I had all the Windows menus now. Any ideas?
 
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Try starting garageband, wait for it to open and quit again.

Others have reported similar issues and firing up garageband seemed to help them...
 
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Garage Band has fixed this every time for me. Play a few notes in GB and then it should be back to normal. That is why I do not use Audacity any longer. I went with Amadeus. It costs a bit but works 100% and no issues so far.
 
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You are right. Wow. That is retarded.
Any insight into the mechanism at work here?
You guys are my heroes.
 
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Some sort of bug in audacity and its core audio handling I'd guess.
 
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grimmer said:
Help please ... Audacity must be changing some secret sound setting automatically, because after I open it, YouTube is silent and Rhapsody refuses to play at all. iTunes is unaffected, as are the "system" sound settings. I don't get it. I feel like I have been through every menu and control panel in the OS.

Restarts do nothing (Safari or system). First this happened at home to my Dual-core Mini and now to the Intel iMac at work. Both are on Tiger. I am an old fed-up Windows defecter, but I sort of wish I had all the Windows menus now. Any ideas?
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I read at the Audacity site that there was a bug like that. I think the remedy was listed at their site. There's something to change with preferences. I think what it does, is mess with other system sounds or something like that. There's something in the preferences which stops the app doing that.

I haven't had that problem with my version of Audacity, possibly because of that preference setting. Check out their site for details. It should fix it.
 

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