no sound during playback

[xmarahd]

After importing my track to audacity, when I playback the audio I can't hear anything. the audio levels are showing but the sound doesn't come out.

I am using Audacity 1.3.4-Beta (unicode)

If anybody knows how to fix this tiny problem I would greatly appreciate it.

[steve]

Are you using a USB audio device?
Which Linux distro are you using?
What audio devices (sound cards) do you have in/attached to your system?
Do other audio applications work?
What have you tried so far to fix the problem?

[bgravato]

Do you have sound in other programs?

You've probably selected the wrong playback device in Preferences -> Devices -> Playback

Start by trying "default", if you have that option available.

Do you have pulseaudio or jack running on your system?

1.3.4 is a bit old... Doesn't your distribution provide a more up-to-date version of audacity? 1.3.12 is the latest beta and it has many improvements over previous versions.

[xmarahd]

wow....how simple....thanks. all I had to do was set the preference to Default and it worked.

just for my info...how do I go about finding out whether I have pulseaudio or jack running my system? and what is Linux distro?

thank you so much!

[bgravato]

Linux Distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distro
(popular ones: Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, etc...)

One possible way of finding if you have pulse audio or jack running: type this at the command line:

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ps -C pulseaudio
ps -C jackd

If it returns anything beside "PID TTY TIME CMD" then you have it running...