Package: audacity Version: 1.2.4b-2.1 Severity: normal
Audacity as packaged does not work well with ALSA. You can run audacity with "aoss audacity" but you may find, as I did, that certain Audio I/O settings such as "Play other tracks while recording new one" or "software playthrough" that use the sound card in full duplex excite the bugs in OSS emulation or that you can't use the full range of alsa devices when you have multiple audio devices connected (for example, a USB headset as well as motherboard sound). Using ALSA natively requires compiling with --with-portaudio=v19 --without-portmixer http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linux_Issues You may want to make two versions: /usr/bin/audacity-oss /usr/bin/audacity-alsa /usr/bin/audacity symlink to one of the above via /etc/alternatives They could be part of the same package. It is inappropriate to make the user recompile audacity in order to use the better of the two sound systems. >From the audacity team wiki: "If you use audacity 1.3.2 or newer you are strongly recommended to compile using portaudio-v19 so you have native ALSA support, and use that in preference to the OSS option." -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages audacity depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libflac++5 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru ii libflac7 1.1.2-5 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library ii libid3tag0 0.15.1b-10 ID3 tag reading library from the M ii libmad0 0.15.1b-2.1 MPEG audio decoder library ii libogg0 1.1.3-2 Ogg Bitstream Library ii libsndfile1 1.0.16-1 Library for reading/writing audio ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libwxgtk2.4-1 2.4.5.1.1 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI t audacity recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
