Audacity Forum

As per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1025578, remove package bluez-alsa and everything should be fast again. I think. I had the same problem. Thanks for the suggestion. Testing with Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit in Vurtualbox, launching audacity takes about 12 seconds with or without bluez-a...

Thanks for all of your feedback and test results. I suspect that the slowness is due to the version of ALSA used in recent versions of Ubuntu clashing with one of the libraries that is used in Audacity, and that you are able to resolve the problem by installing using more recent versions of the lib...