wrknight:
When playing any audio file with Audacity 2.0.5, I get nothing but static. My OS is Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) running on an Intel I5 Desktop computer.
The problem didn’t exist before this evening while I was recording and editing streaming audio (not simultaneously).
So it is not the same issue that you had before Static during playback ?
wrknight:
Audacity still records captured audio just fine. I can edit any recorded or imported audio (so long as I don’t try to listen to it) and export the audio to mp3 or wav or any other format with no problems at all. But if I try to play the audio file with Audacity, I get nothing but static and Audacity will crash unless I let it run to the end.
The speed during playback appears to be about 24 times real time. (A 4 minute audio file is swept through in 10 seconds.) On very rare occasions, the playback will slow to actual playing time and will produce clear sound with no static - then it will pick up again (especially after a track break) and produce only static.
The playback speed control is inoperative under all conditions.
I have uninstalled Audacity (complete uninstall) and reinstalled it using Synamptic and apt-get. No difference with either one. I have deleted all the info in the audacity-config file (in the .audacity-data) directory except the first line (NewPrefsInitialized=1) and rebooted the computer with no change in Audacity.
Assuming the crash is a freeze, forcing you to quit Audacity in System Monitor, it’s probably the known issue between pulse and Audacity - see Missing features - Audacity Support .
Gale