Posted on 01/15/2020 6:44:16 PM PST by Paul R.
+1
Do you know if your Win 10 box is 32-bit or 64-bit?
The most amazing and unbelievable thing about Audacity is that such a powerful, capable, and feature-rich program is actually FREE.
Yeah, it seems like 3/4 the repliers didn’t read the body / comment (post #1)!
Audacity is way too big, unless it’s been greatly streamlined for basic usage in recent releases. And I just had a ton of trouble getting the external stuff, plug-ins and such, needed for relatively simple functions to work — some I never did get working, and I simply quit trying them after finding Wavosaur.
Mind you that while no expert, I have long experience and a LITTLE capability around computers, used to write my own batch files, etc., and way back when even mucked around in Fortran and PL1 a bit (the Fortran & PL1 mostly forgotten, probably!) Even so, I found Audacity pretty daunting to make it work, mainly because of that “external” stuff.
Ah, maybe that was it. (It's been a while.) It seems like maybe the codec pack was the biggest problem and I never could get that to work... Am a bit hazy on that, though.
MS Word or Libre Office seem fairly straightforward to me now, too, at least for simple documents. But when I first encountered \ them - oh, yee Gods...
Wordpad (say, 2002 or so) would do almost everything I needed. Same sort of situation here.
I really liked the Sound Edit Pro and was my go to editor, and then Adobe took that and released Audition which was great as well. Other than that I have never found ones I liked.
64 bit. I might have one 32 bit Win 7 machine, but it’s not hooked up. All our Win 10 machines are 64 bit.
Your problem is that Wavosaur just won't run at all in Win 10, is it not?
get an apple
That’s my take on photoshop so I stay with Paint Shop Pro
Didn't even have to fuss with compatibility mode.
There’s two versions on the Wavosaur website. Which one are you trying to use on your Win 10 boxes - the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version?
Wonder if you're using the 32-bit version that worked on your Win 7 installation till they borked it.
I still love Cool Edit ...
It got bought out by Adobe and re-packaged as Audition.
Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 2016 or better.
I’ve tried both. I don’t think it actually matters on a 64 bit machine - the old exe I had was 32 bit and it ran fine on this Win 7 / 64 bit machine. (My SSD is down [for the count?] after an attempted Windows update several days ago, but I “recovered” to where I can still run off the HD.)
I’ll pull Wavosaur up and see again exactly what the error message is - something about not finding an audio driver.
It’d be almost ideal if I could get Wavosaur to work, since I’ve used it for years. Trouble shooting just didn’t get me anywhere.
For really ancient programs (pre w95) that run in DOS as the OS and not shell, get DOSBOX.
Freeware at sourceforge AFAIK
Runs my really ancient ones, before a mouse was an input device.
I never had success with compatibility mode.
That's it. I went through all sorts of audio / sound settings on the machine and nothing made any difference.
Haha - yes, I still use DosBox to run a few things, too!
Note: The program appears to come up ok. But, when I try to do anything, such as “turn on” the levels monitor, I get that error.
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