Same thing worked for me. I no longer get the problem using Nightly builds.
http://about.me/rolandixor/ On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Felipe Castillo <1246...@bugs.launchpad.net > wrote: > Adding this line before executing audacity fixed the problem completely > for me, without disabling pulseaudio or changing the output hardware: > > env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity > > I give credit to this post for the fix: http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t > /call-for-confirmation-audacity-pulseaudio-issues-on-13-10/969/6 > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1217691). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246092 > > Title: > Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade: audacity sound is trashed, program highly > unstable > > Status in “audacity” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > On playback I get a rough static that crackles corresponding to the > waveform intensity; on occasion the sound may start as noise and then > flip into proper sound output, but when paused the subsequent playback > will produce static and pausing that will crash the program. I have > tried Playback set to Alsa/pulse and Alsa/default, both give this > behaviour. When the selected sample is played as noise, the scrolling > cursor works, but appears to be scrolling by much faster than real- > time. > > also, when the playback works, the scrolling cursor behaves very > strangely: the thin line may not move at all, or a segment of it may > stay put while another part of it scrolls along with the sound. > > This is a fresh upgrade to 13.10 on a 64-bit Ubuntu machine, a > ZaReason Strata laptop with nvidia sound (according to alsa). > > Audacity worked fine on 13.04, occasional lock ups, but Audacity is > prone to occasional lock-ups, and the sound was fine. Audio works > fine with other audio apps including youtubes, totem, vlc and sushi. > If I highlight a segment of sound in Audacity and export to disk as > mp3, sushi will play the resulting mp3 fine. The problem seems > peculiar to Audacity playback. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 > Package: audacity 2.0.3-1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 > Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > AlsaCards: > 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH > HDA Intel PCH at 0xc5400000 irq 50 > 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia > HDA NVidia at 0xc3000000 irq 17 > ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Tue Oct 29 17:24:18 2013 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-27 (550 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 > (20120425) > MarkForUpload: True > ProcEnviron: > LANGUAGE=en_CA:en > PATH=(custom, no user) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: audacity > UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-22 (6 days ago) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/1246092/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246092 Title: Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade: audacity sound is trashed, program highly unstable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/1246092/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
