On Feb 03 12:06:20, Jan Stary wrote:
> Jacob,
>
> firstly, thank you for all the audio work you do on OpenBSD.
> You are turning my laptop into the best audio workstation I have.
>
> Right now, I am trying to use audacity as packaged in 1.3.9.p0
> on a recent -current.
>
> I open a new project, record a new track (pressing the record button).
> A waveform appears as I record, corresponding obviously to the sounds
> I make. I stop the recording with the stop button.
>
> When I try to play it back (pressing the play button), there's no sound.
> The time-poisition bar does move through the waveform, but audacity
> does not play anything.
>
> At the same time, I have an xterm open to run mixerctl.
> Things are not muted, volumes are at reasonable levels.
> In fact, I can play the sounds that audacity just recorded
> (saved in .../e00/d00/*au) without any problems with, say,
> aucat or sox. It's just that audacity itself doesn't play
> them. Or does, but no sound comes out.
Ah! This problem never occurs when I start audacity as
audacity file.wav
- in this case, audacity plays the file back just fine.
It opens a new project where file.wav is the only track.
And I can record new tracks, and play them back.
Also, if I open an existing audacity project (such as test.aup,
which is the one I recorded but couldn't play back before), then
I can play it back, and can record new tracks in it and play
them back.
It seems that my problem is isolated to recording and playing
the very first track of a yet-unexistent new project; in fact,
1) open audacity
2) record a track; a new project is (probably) created,
in which this new track is the only one.
3) fail to play the track back
4) save the project
5) play the track(s) back successfully
6) record new tracks, play them back successfully
So it seems that the audacity project that holds the tracks merely
needs to "exist" and be saved; a new track of a new, unsaved project
cannot be played, but all others can.
Again, the above applies to a situation when aucat -l is not
running; when it is running, audacity can open and play existing
files/projects, but cannot record new tracks.
Jan
