Audacity Forum

I rebooted, and now Audacity seems to be running fine. I don't know why it wasn't before, because I started out with ALSA last night and changed it to Jack afterwards to find out if that would fix it. But, my whole computer was acting buggy. I'm not sure what the thing was. I tried watching a video,...

I really don't know why Jack is there. I must have installed it at some point, thinking it would be useful for something, but I don't remember doing it. Clearly, it isn't doing me much good now. Should I get rid of it?
I want to record some songs that I wrote.

Oh, and btw (because I just noticed the pink box at the top of the page where it asks where I got my Audacity version), I downloaded it from Synaptic Package Manager.

"It's not working properly." Yeah, I suspected that, thank you. Always nice to know for sure. I have Audacity 2.0.5 Linux Mint 17.2 with Mate 64 bit, on a Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop with 8g of ram and Intel® Core™ i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz × 4 Ultimately, I will be recording songs that I wrote, once I g...

My Audacity will not record or playback. It does something, because when I hit record, the line to the left of the progress bar blinks, but won't go anywhere. If I hit playback, it doesn't blink but it still doesn't move, either. It's like the system is in an eternal state of pause, that I can't get...