Audacity Forum

Thanks all.

So now my Audacity refuses to run saying another instance of the program is already running - it's not, even after several reboots.

Also, plugged in my USB headset/mic (Microsoft Lifechat 3000) to test the PAVU Control and the device shows up not in recording tab but does appear in Input Devices and Output Devices but I cannot see how to make that default. Plus as said, I can't get Audacity working now anyway to see. In configuration on PAVU I can see stereo output and analogue mono input in the last tab.

To be honest, this seems like a completely stupid idea now, and I am gutted I have lost Audacity at all.

Thanks
Kyle

I don't know where you are getting Audacity from. Sourceforge has never distributed Linux binaries.

If you update to Linux Mint 17 you could uninstall whatever Audacity you are are using and install the "2.1.2-1~14.04" unofficial PPA from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/ ... u/audacity. This would give you the current Audacity release and may help the "already running" problem.

If it does not solve that problem, try deleting the audacity-lock-<your username> file in /var/tmp/audacity-<your username>.

If you connect a USB device while Audacity is running, restart Audacity or use Transport > Rescan Audio Devices.

To choose the Audacity playback or recording device you selected in pavucontrol, choose the "default" device in Device Toolbar or Devices Preferences.


Gale

Kylerickards wrote:Also, plugged in my USB headset/mic (Microsoft Lifechat 3000) to test the PAVU Control and the device shows up not in recording tab but does appear in Input Devices and Output Devices but I cannot see how to make that default.

In this example, the "Internal Mic" is the default.
To change the default to "PCM2902 Audio Codec - Analog input", I would click as indicated by the red arrow.
Note that the line below the input level controls is a level meter. In the above picture you can see that the internal mic is picking up a signal, but my USB device (PCM2902 Audio Codec) is currently silent.

The Playback and Recording tabs show which applications are currently accessing sound. A slightly peculiar thing about Audacity is that when it is not playing or recording, it disconnects from the sound system, so Audacity only shows up in the Playback tab when playing and only shows up in the recording tab when recording, or if the Audacity recording meter has been activated (by clicking on it).

Here we can see Audacity recording from the built in microphone.
Regardless of which device is selected as the default, we can tell PulseAudio to direct a different source to Audacity by clicking the large button that currently says "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo".

Gale Andrews wrote:I don't know where you are getting Audacity from. Sourceforge has never distributed Linux binaries.

If you update to Linux Mint 17 you could uninstall whatever Audacity you are are using and install the "2.1.2-1~14.04" unofficial PPA from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/ ... u/audacity. This would give you the current Audacity release and may help the "already running" problem.

If it does not solve that problem, try deleting the audacity-lock-<your username> file in /var/tmp/audacity-<your username>.

If you connect a USB device while Audacity is running, restart Audacity or use Transport > Rescan Audio Devices.

To choose the Audacity playback or recording device you selected in pavucontrol, choose the "default" device in Device Toolbar or Devices Preferences.


Gale

Thank you. I will try the above fix to get my original audacity working, then I have a spare HDD so will install Mint 17 on that and try everything again.

I normally am alright at Linux things but I am pulling my hair out with this one

steve wrote:

Kylerickards wrote:Also, plugged in my USB headset/mic (Microsoft Lifechat 3000) to test the PAVU Control and the device shows up not in recording tab but does appear in Input Devices and Output Devices but I cannot see how to make that default.

In this example, the "Internal Mic" is the default.
To change the default to "PCM2902 Audio Codec - Analog input", I would click as indicated by the red arrow.

pavucontrol.png

Note that the line below the input level controls is a level meter. In the above picture you can see that the internal mic is picking up a signal, but my USB device (PCM2902 Audio Codec) is currently silent.

The Playback and Recording tabs show which applications are currently accessing sound. A slightly peculiar thing about Audacity is that when it is not playing or recording, it disconnects from the sound system, so Audacity only shows up in the Playback tab when playing and only shows up in the recording tab when recording, or if the Audacity recording meter has been activated (by clicking on it).

Here we can see Audacity recording from the built in microphone.

audacity-recording.png

Regardless of which device is selected as the default, we can tell PulseAudio to direct a different source to Audacity by clicking the large button that currently says "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo".

Thank you, I will try this shortly.

It does seem much easier to use my Mac at this point :(a

Thank you both!

When I went back into Mint 13, it opened Audacity properly and showed all my plug ins.

Then, I came out of Audacity, went into PAVU control, followed Steve's instructions for making the USB mic the default, checked it in Audacity and it's all just worked with crystal clear sound.

A MASSIVE thanks to both - although I am going to install Mint 17.3 on the spare HDD as I don't want to bang my head against the walls again repeatedly.

Kyle

steve wrote: In this example, the "Internal Mic" is the default.
To change the default to "PCM2902 Audio Codec - Analog input", I would click as indicated by the red arrow.

What does the green arrow signify on the "Set as fallback" button? Working? Muting the device does not change the green arrow.

I agree it is not very clear which device is fallback, the fallback device just has a slightly darker grey on that button.


Gale