On 23-Feb-2009, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > 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.
Note that this doesn't help for the situation described above, where pulseaudio is *required* for access to the audio devices. > 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. Perhaps this bug is best applied to portaudio then? I don't know the answer to that question. > 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 This does work, but could hardly be called a fix for this bug; more a worksaround. > OTOH upstream seems to be against it: > http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3541 That discussion also ignores the possibility of the situation described in this bug report (that pulseaudio is required for access to some audio setups). > 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. Can I ask that the package manager perform that advocacy on behalf of package users? -- \ “True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to | `\ others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you | _o__) want.” —Larry Wall | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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