Audacity Forum

Thank you. Taken from the Audacity WIKI, To avoid opening the terminal each time, it may (depending on the distribution) be possible to add the required latency command directly to the application launcher. If not, you can (with root permissions) edit /usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop and ins...

Audacity 2.1.3
Ubuntu 14.04

This problem just started and the static doesn't occur in any other program. I haven't done any upgrades, except for upgrading Audacity, but that was done, after the static. I even tried converting the MP3 to WAV, but it still does the same thing.

I just upgraded Audacity to 2.1.3, because I was getting nothing but modulated static, when trying to play/edit an mp3. The mp3 works fine, in VLC. After I attempt to play it, Audacity becomes unresponsive. I have tried removing Audacity: apt-get remove --purge audacity and reinstalling, apt-get ins...