[LAU] [Bulk] Re: Audacity on Ubuntu 14.04 is REALLY unstable

[Luigino Bracci]

I suggest to try another audio backend with Audacity. In the past, we had
many troubles, hangups and crashes when using Audacity with Pulseaudio (the
default sound server in Ubuntu); the problems stopped when we switched to
Jackd. Unfortunely, it is not easy to use Jack in Ubuntu, because you must
disable Pulseaudio or install and configure pulseaudio-module-jack.

I prefer to use KXStudio, an Ubuntu-based distribution, because it
integrates by default Pulseaudio and Jack working together, using a custom
module called "Cadence". I work in a radio station, we have 12 workstations
with KXstudio and Audacity is full stable as a rock.

Bye.


2014-08-18 6:24 GMT-04:30 Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>:

> OK here is more detail on what I do.
>
> All I am doing is ripping some old LPs.   Very simple stuff.  Then
> splitting it up into MP3s
>
> Whenever I am ripping if I am using a web browser at the same time,
> what happens is audacity stops recording as though someone had hit the
> "stop" button.  It does not hand or anything, and I can hit "record"
> again and it goes (but it still screws up my rip of course)
>
> Then when I am done of that an processing, a really simple one.  I
> zoom into the area between songs then I want to play that short clip
> to see exactly where one song ends and the other begins, and maybe
> figure out whether there is a few seconds of silence I can cut out.
> So I hit "play" and then when I hit "stop" at the other end, it hangs
> solid and eventually gives me the option to kill or wait.  I kill it.
> That one can sometimes happen the very first thing into audacity
> before I've done any other editing.
>
> As for settings - I think all defaults but I'll go through that later.
>
> I am using regular Ubuntu not studio.
>
> No massive files - just the length of an LP.  Usually 45 minutes but
> it can happen at the 2 minute mark.
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