Audition 2020 isn't working I can't play my audio and it won't record

Report · Mar 29, 2020

Please help I need to finish a project and after updating to 2020 the play/space bar wont work. I went to preference and made sure audio devices was correct still nothing. There is no response it simply says play or stop but the playhead does not move. Record also does not function. I also tried adding an interface and it does not respond even though it recognizes it? What's going on with Audition 2020?

Report · Mar 29, 2020

I've moved your post to the correct forum.

Report · Mar 29, 2020

Well whatever you think, you're still not connected correctly to a sound device that works. Has to be this, because it's the only thing that stops Audition's transport working. But we can't tell you any more than that, because you haven't even told us whether this is a Mac or a PC you are using. It might help if you can show us screen-grabs of your hardware settings page.

Report · Mar 29, 2020

okay, here's what's weird. everything on my computer was working fine and then later today it just doesn't play. Hit the space bar and nothing happens.

I looked at the sound device and it seems to be playing fine with no errors but not in Audition (2020). I don't understand that it worked earlier and all of a sudden it doesn't work, particularly where the soundcard isn't presenting any further errors. Running Windows 10. Do I need to reinstall the program? I don't get this at all.

Any thoughts?

Mark Donaldson

Report · Mar 29, 2020

I've already told you what's causing this, and what to do to help resolve it. Reinstalling won't make any difference.

Report · Mar 29, 2020

hi. I'm not the same guy that you were replying to initially. I'm was just using his thread, but I had the same problem.

Come to find out the problem wasn't the (playback) sound card, per se, but my usb mike. I may had plugged and unplugged it in while AA was running and cuased some confusion, I don't remember, but once I unplugged it and turned the input preferences to no input, the conflict went away. It seems to be fine now.

Report · Mar 30, 2020

Sorry about that - but this is why you shouldn't hijack other peoples' threads. If you have a problem of your own, start a thread about it specifically, please.