Audition won't play or record. Why? What do I do?

In other words, you can open a file, but the Transport controls don't do anything. This applies to all versions of Audition...
Pretty much invariably when this happens, it's because Audition has become disconnected from your sound device, either external or internal. So the first thing you have to do is go to the Preferences page, select Hardware Setup, and make sure that it's selected there. Close the page, and then try again.
If, by any minute chance this doesn't fix the problem, then ask on the forum for more help, and make sure that you tell us specifically about your particular machine and how it's configured. But, this really is one of those 'one-solution-only' problems, as a rule.

I have the same problem. Just bought a new U2 Ipod this week, I think it played the video once. After that, it just kept freezing up, now I can't get it to play anymore. I ran Ipod updater a hundred times, restored it at least 20 times in the last two days, but it just keeps freezing up, also when playing music, scrolling, updating,... This s* badly, as I travel a lot and want to take it with me.
I think you should just take it to a store and complain.

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After my friend transferred my songs to my new laptop, i have installed itunes. First i had 2 or 3 entries of the same song, because i had a music files (mostly
mp3), and the 2 entries were from Itunes music files. One entry played, the other wouldn't (exclamation point). As i have a couple thousand songs, i decided to consolidate into Itunes Media, thinking i could then uninstall Itunes, Reinstall it and delete my Itunes music folder.
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I would guess that if they both point to the same file and you delete one of them, you have deleted the file. Therefore it is no longer there to be played.
I'm not really sure how you got into this situation. I'm also not sure if you have multiple copies of the same songs on your drive or just multiple entries in the library. It sounds like you haven't gotten very far, that you have not yet set up playlists that you would be heartbroken to lose. If you have room on your drive, I might suggest closing iTunes, renaming both of those media folders, then restarting iTunes and creating a brand new library. I would set iTunes to copy media files to the library when it imports them so that it all gets consolidated. I would add the music folder (which is probably a sub-folder of those other folders) from one of your two existing folders and see what happens. Then I'd add the other.
As a normal precaution, I highly recommend backing up your two music folders before starting this.
When all is done and you are happy, you should be able to delete the older folders. This is the step that begs for a backup. First, though, I'd change the names of the two older folders again and see if iTunes plays your music. If not, it didn't make a copy and it's still looking in the old folders. You might want keep them around for a while and only delete them when you need drive space. I am loathe to delete anything unnecessarily, just in case there is a problem.
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Audition does not play nor record

Auditon CS6 does not play nor record.
I can click into the file but when I press play or space there is no reaction. "no transport".
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program. No luck.
Earlier the onboard processor hat to be replaced (hp warranty). Could it be that this has caused Audition to react strangely. Maybe due to a processor id not being equal to the original setup?
Windows 7 Pro, SP1, HP Workstation Z620 64Bit

When Audition's transport doesn't work, it's because it has become disconnected from your sound device. Go into Preferences > Hardware setup, and reconnect it! Should all work fine then, assuming that your sound device is actually okay...

Some of the songs on my iPod won't play anymore. Why?

Since I got the last software update some of my songs won't play at all. Some will, but most of them won't. Until the update I had no problems. I've seen similar discussions all over the internet and none of the proposed solutions work.
I've tried:
Converting my songs from MP3 to AAC.
Restarting my iPod.
Many have tried restoring there iPods to factory settings, even removing there music from iTunes, putting them back on then re-syncing, but that didn't help so I won't waste a good 6 to 8 hours (considering my large amount of music.)
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I previoulsy have adding many CD to my iTunes music library and then synched them with my iPhone so that I have all music in both places. And I could the CDs in iTunes or iPhone with no problems. Recently, my iTunes "sees" the music but won't play it. Why

I have added many CD to my iTunes music library and then synched them with my iPhone so that I have all music in both places. Then I could the play them in iTunes or iPhone with no problems. Recently, my iTunes "sees" the music library but won't play any of it becuase "the original could not be found". If I attach my iPhone, then it pays them through the iPhone, but still not through the library in iTunes. How can I get the music library on my iPhone to transfer (i.e. restore it) to iTunes? I have iPhone 4S but have not upgraded to the iOS 6, and have not had any problems until last week. Help! Thanks.

Check the manual for whatever backup program you used, or, if you just copied the files over, copy them that.
How to restore data to your PC is outside the scope of these forums.

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I got itunes match when it first came out.
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When I play songs from iPad or iPhone, many, many songs will NOT play all the way through. Most of these songs stop playing about half-way or 3/4 of the way thru the song. For the most part, THESE ARE SONGS PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM ITUNES!!
The music timer will keep running, like the song is still playing, but it is just dead air. Sometimes it jumps to the next track, and it will play the next track even though the music timer is still running and still showing the original song title, not the next track title.
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i am doing all of this at home, while connected to high-speed wifi. when i say high speed wifi, i mean like over 40 Mbps downstream (say what you will about CableOne, but they have screaming data speeds).
the problem files are "normal songs" approx 4 or 5 minutes or less. again, they were purchased from the itunes store.
for what it's worth, about two hours ago, i uninstalled itunes completely from my computer, restarted the machine, then redownloaded itunes from apple.com. i also reset both devices (ipad and iphone) again.
i turned off itunes match on both devices, signed out of the store in both devices (settings/store/apple id) then set everything back up from scratch. after all this, the same exact thing is happening with the same exact songs.
funny thing is this: it always happens to the very same songs, and the music cuts off at exactly the same time, down to the exact second. the source file shouldn't be corrupted because the file is from itunes, and because if i play it directly on my computer on itunes, it plays perfectly.
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I think its related to upgrading to Mountain Lion on mac, but very recently at least, Audition now refuses to play.
It launches ok, loads a file ok, but when I hit space bar or play button, it looks like it should be playing, but its just stopped. Has anyone else had this behavior?
I really need Audition so its very annoying!
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Try not to get too excited about a word - most errors of this sort are made in ignorance. That's not a sin, and is quite forgivable; not everybody is expected to know everything.
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And if you want to be a ProTools apologist, that's fine - but you are comparing dissimilar products, especially if you are using PT hardware; their rules may well be different. But just because they have the best marketing dept in existence doesn't automatically make them 'right' about everything, I can assure you.

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Welcome to AD!
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+there has been no problem, then the next day... BAM!+
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hmmmm. let's just backtrack to something you said earlier:
I used the CD to install the updates for itunes and the ipod software.
can you doublecheck your itunes version number for us? go "help > about itunes" and wait for the number to scroll up from the bottom.
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Hey there.
I have this issue for some months now and tried to get around it several times but no solution turned out to work.
I have tried to reset all audio devices, reconfigured everything, reinstalled the OSX and also, this doesn't work with Audition CC either.
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