I’m going to continue working on this now and I’ll update you folks later. To compound matters further, now I can’t play music on apps like WMP, or Groove (the new music player app found on Win 10), which worked yesterday.

I also tried to open Audition, but now it won’t even initialize. (I was unable to find any selections with which to fill in this box. I could not get a song to play and Realtek does not show up as a choice in the “Playback Device” box in the toolbar. I opened Audacity to see what impact my efforts had, but the Playback Device box is blank. When the troubleshooter was finished, the dialog box said “Audio Services Not Responding.”

Under the “Advanced” tab, it said “16 bit - 44100Hz,” which also sounds OK. However, the “properties” info box for the device says “Requires Further Installation.” No “enhancements” were on except for the “Immediate Mode” box being checked.

The drivers are up to date and it is (supposedly) working. The device (Realtek Hi-Definition Audio) was found. You can even apply a filter that erases the voice in a song.Īs if this wasn't enough, you can add all types of 32-bit external VST plugins, and also reproduce MIDI files.I did as the Microsoft Community agent suggested and ran the troubleshooter (again). Its power lays in the possibility of applying changes to any section of the audio file you want, and as well as its multi-track editing. Thanks to the amount of available filters and effects, Audacity is much more versatile than it first seems.īesides all this, it allows you to adjust the level of noise on an audio track, modify the shape of the wave to adjust it to your needs, or add all kinds of post-process effects. It also includes all kinds of basic editing tools like cutting, copying, erasing. It supports the majority of audio formats, such as wav, mp3, Ogg, wma, ac3, flac and aiff. It is a free, open-source software with GNU licensing to record and edit audio, working directly with the graphics of the sound waves. There are many tools in this category, but few so comprehensive and efficient as Audacity.

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