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alright-----i recorded a band with the mic-in and when i finished uploading it i exported it to Sound Forge as a WAV file.....but when i tried to play it in Sound Forge all I kept getting was a

"error while opening sound device. please check the output device settings and the project sample rate".

How do i fix this. I never had this problem before.

also i am running Sonic Stage 3.4

i don't understand what the problem is.

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alright-----i recorded a band with the mic-in and when i finished uploading it i exported it to Sound Forge as a WAV file.....but when i tried to play it in Sound Forge all I kept getting was a

"error while opening sound device. please check the output device settings and the project sample rate".

This has nothing to do with either your HiMD or the uploaded recording. It's just a setting in SF that's gotten botched somehow.

Sometimes this can happen if you install more than one sound card, or if you install proxy drivers like Total Recorder and leave them selected as the system-wide device for audio playback at all times.

It can also be caused by hobbled ASIO drivers [if you have said ASIO driver seleceted as the output device is SF] that insist on having any other application that plays sound either in full "stop" mode or actually closed.

I don't know what version of SF you're running, but generally this setting is found under OPTIONS -> PREFERENCES, and on the "Audio" tab.

Here's my preferred order for device selection:

* ASIO if you device and driver support it [though note what I said above]

* "Windows Classic Wave Driver", and manually set the "Default playback device" for your actual sound card

* "Microsoft Sound Mapper" is the worst all-around choice as it relies on whatever your system-wide settings are, and if you have more than one audio adapter or a proxy driver installed, can easily mess up.

P.S. .. the mismatched sample rate or bit-depth errors can also come up if you have a voicemodem installed.

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