Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Audacity, in its configuration for audio devices (Edit → Preferences → > Audio I/O), presents only ALSA and OSS devices. The PulseAudio devices > should also be presented on systems that have PulseAudio working. > > This is a problem on systems that *only* have audio working via > PulseAudio. For example, an X desktop running on a remote server, > which must communicate over the network to a workstation running a > PulseAudio server that controls the workstation's audio devices.
>From http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#Audacity Audacity doesn't support PulseAudio, nor Esound for the moment. You'll have to kill or suspend pulseaudio before you use this application. Audacity uses the PortAudio cross-platform Audio API which doesnt support pulseaudio. Some work was started on making portaudio support PulseAudio but this does not appear to be under active development currently and does not work in it's current state. Audacity can use OSS for sound input and sound output. By changing the 2 settings in preferences to /dev/dsp, and running audacity as padsp audacity you route OSS sound through pulseaudio and can have successful playback and recording with audacity. You could also set the sound input to be ALSA which (for regular users) is less likely to be blocked by another application, as recording with multiple applications at once is less commonly done Using pasuspender to momentarily suspend pulseaudio is another way to use Audacity. pasuspender -- audacity <argument> OTOH upstream seems to be against it: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3541 However there seems to be a patch for audacity to actually support this nevertheless. But unless someone steps forward to examine and discuss that patch with upstream, I'd vote for setting this bug to wishlist/wontfix. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
