Audacity Forum

Hi there!

I found this forum today, and by following some of the links on here I finally managed to get Audacity configured so that it will record, and play back sounds.

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with the 1.3 version of Audacity. In order to get Audacity to record, and play back, I had to set the input, and output to their OSS selections, and then re-start Audacity with the padsp command in front of it's command line call..

I still have one smaller problem however. Pressing record allowed the immediate recording of a new track, but subsequent pressing of the play button, resulted in a graying out period of perhaps 15 seconds before the actual play back would begin.

Also, any new presses of the record button also resulted in a graying out period, which may, or may not end after a short wait of about 15 seconds. I actually had to kill the frozen Audacity program, after one attempt to record additional data into the project, after the initially trouble free first recording of a track.

Could someone please help me puzzle out what is causing these delays, and freezes? When I try to use Help, Sound Information, all I get is a blank white dialog with no data in it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can be!!!

Later, Ray Parrish

It's taken Ubuntu a long time to get their release of Audacity right. The only way that I could get Audacity to work correctly in Ubuntu 8,04 was to build WxWidgets from a Nightly Snapshot tarball, and then download Audacity from cvs (as it was then - now the source code uses svn) and build Audacity from the source code. From Ubuntu 9.04 onward the default Ubuntu installation (through Synaptic or Add Software) should work. I would recommend updating to Ubuntu 10.04 as that is the current Long Term Support version.

Hello again,

I tried Audacity again today, and after loading a saved project, and it informing me that it was caching the audio in memory, the playback worked perfectly. It seems that the lag only happens with a freshly imported file in a non-saved project, so I can live with that. It's real nice to finally be able to test a set of tracks withut exporting them to a file every time

Later, Ray "The Unknown Lead Player"

http://www.reverbnation.com/christopherrayparrish

I don't know what ubuntu have been doing to their libs and etc, but I've been giving a try at Ubuntu mostly since it came out a few years ago. I've tried out a few of their releases (including the latest 10.04) and I'd thought by now they would have made it more stable... Eventhough Ubuntu is quite handy for its ease of installation and having almost everything working out-of-the-box quickly, unfortunately, there are always small annoyances that make me regret installing it.

After a major virus infection on my parents windows computer sometime ago I decided to try to put them using linux and I decided to give ubuntu another try (10.04). Installation went smooth, but then the problems started coming (first something sound related which I was able to solve after a reboot, looks like reboot technology has come to linux too...). Canon (pre-compiled) printer drivers won't work (glib versions mismatch it seems) and trying to compile them always fails. Google Earth's binary won't run either (probably qt libs related), this is a known bug for a few months, but apparently still no solution...

As for ray's freezes my guess would go for lack of ram and intensive use of swap.