Help for Audacity on GNU/Linux.
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This forum is for Audacity on GNU/Linux.
Please state:
- which version of Linux you are using,
- the exact three-section version number of Audacity from Help menu > About Audacity,
- whether you installed your distribution's release, PPA version, or compiled Audacity from source code.
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade (see
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/).
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the
1.2.x and
1.3.x forums.
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momenso
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:56 pm
- Operating System: Linux *buntu
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by momenso » Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:09 pm
Recording anything via microphone is fine and all up until I open Audacity
. It seems that it is messing up with ALSA and after that I am no longer able to record anything from the mic - after that any other application that tries to record/capture audio from mic just record silence.
I am running Audacity 2.1.2-1 (package from repo) on
Linux Mint "Sarah" 4.4.0-38.
Any ideas on what might be causing this issue and how to fix it?
Thanks!
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Gale Andrews
- Quality Assurance
- Posts: 41761
- Joined: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:02 am
- Operating System: Windows 10
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by Gale Andrews » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:14 pm
What is the make and model number of the mic? If it's a USB mic, other applications can't use it while Audacity is doing so, unless you select that mic in Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol) then choose the "pulse" recording device in Audacity.
Gale
