Play stops for no reason - can't restart. Have to go into options to reset

Jeff M3 · Messages: 60 Registration: 02.21.2003

When playing audio to edit, the cursor will simply stop. When I click play, nothing happens. The behavior is very much like when you have the wrong audio device selected, so I go into Options... Preferences... Audio... Device and just click OK, then suddenly I can play again. This has happened multiple times. Just stops playing, so I do the Options trick and it plays again. I don't even change anything in Preferences, I just click OK and it works again. Puzzling. I'm on Windows 7 with an i7 processor and 16GB of RAM.

DOO · Messages: 2,300 Registration: 08.29.2001

what is your interface? what driver are you using for it? (eg ASIO or other) I assume you already did all the stuff recommended for setting up your computer in the first part of the user guide? Sounds to me like you have something set wrong in your audio device prefs. Either that or you have something else running in the background that is stealing your selected audio driver from time to time.

watwhat · Messages: 13 Registration: 08.23.2001

Thanks ivansc. I'll double check the guide and make sure I set everything up right. I suppose it's possible something is stealing the audio device back, but I'm thinking not likely. My "Audio System" is WaveOut" and my input and output device are the same, as I use a Scarlett 2i2. Besides the input / output devices, I just left the rest as defaults since day 1. Everything was working and now it just stops and I have to click OK on that screen. Grr, thanks for the reply. I'll go through the manual and make changes if needed. Just doesn't make sense for it to stop. The only other program running is Skype, maybe I'll stop that and see if it makes a difference.

bmwQ · Messages: 516 Registration: 12.02.2003

Thanks so much for this info! I'm experimenting now. I appreciate the details. New Info: My Scarlett is starting to act buggy... I think I found the culprit. I found that I couldn't play videos online, nor get any sound on anything. After resetting the Scarlett, both video and audio started working again. Bummer. Thanks again!

dadhania · Messages: 176 Registration: 10.24.2003

Most of the times it is this "Have you tried to turn it off and on again?"-thing... :D

Filip75 · Messages: 5,664 Registration: 07.02.2001

So embarrassed I missed the reference to Skype running as well! Instant PITA if you try and run it AND a DAW.

cougar · Messages: 243 Registration: 11.08.2002

Just an update...