Audacity Forum

Ok, Fair enough. But all the responses I get are exactly the ones I had with 2.1.2, before bluetooth, and I have never installed any plugins. Removing ALSA was the last measure I took before rolling back to the default 2.0.5 provided by my distribution. No, I do not use OSS or any of the OSS 'extens...

Thanks, I had read that FAQ entry and I do not see how it applies to my case. Audio has been a low priority on this machine in the past, so I have never added deliberately drivers. I'm not clear what the FAQ means by 'external audio devices'. I have only a pair of Sennheiser headphones plugged direc...

Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, those version #'s were typos. Doing as you suggest - deleting /var/tmp/audacity-lock-<my login name> and ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg produced no discernible change in behavior or error messages. The recreated audacity.cfg (I'm using the default 2.0.5 right now) con...

Pardon me if this question is solved somewhere. I cannot find FAQ entries or search terms that seem to give relevant results. I am running Mint 17.3/Ubuntu 14.04 and I cannot get Audacity to run. On startup - either graphically or from the command line, a splash screen appears for a moment (but no i...