
See this Microsoft website for more details.Ī problem of no recording level in Audacity is occurring quite frequently on Mojave, Catalina and later, due to Apple changing the Privacy settings for recording devices (making it more conservative, "safer"). Turn on the Allow apps to access your microphone toggle switch.In order to get around this issue, Microsoft recommends that you need to enable the microphone in your Privacy settings using these steps: Microphone and input device problems Windowsįor some users Windows 10 is now blocking Audacity from using the microphone, on the basis of privacy settings.Īfter upgrading to version 1803 of Windows 10 (April 2018), a small number of users have been reporting that the microphone is getting detected, but it does not pick up any sound. Windows WASAPI: Recording from a USB device.Check PCI card or external sound device settings and connections.Check sound device drivers and firmware.The recording device message most commonly occurs on Windows when one of the sound device inputs is not properly enabled or otherwise cannot respond to Audacity's request to start recording. See the Numeric error codes section for details of the particular codes. For example you will see this error if you attempt to Record to more channels than your device supports, or if you try to overdub on a device that can either record or play back but not both. These messages can suggest a problem with the drivers of the sound device, or possibly that you are asking the device to do something it cannot do. this is a generic message that is usually associated with a failure to start the audio stream. Error opening recording device - Error code -xxxx this means there is a problem with your playback settings, where xxxx is replaced by a numeric code.Error opening recording device - Error code -xxxx this means there is a problem with your Audacity, operating system or sound device recording settings, where xxxx is replaced by a numeric code.This error message asks you to check the recording or playback device settings and the Audacity project sample rate.
