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

[david]

On 08/18/2014 04:45 AM, James Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>>
>>> You can also try jack. Audacity uses jack in a very weird way, as soon
>>> as you roll audacity autoconnects to the first outputs it finds and
>>> disconnects once you stop rolling,
>>
>> That's only one of the many apps that claim to support Jack but
>> get it completely wrong. In many cases, but not always, portaudio
>> is to blame.
>>
>
> Personally I think the way Audacity handles audio on linux is very bad
> - doesn't manage to do Alsa, Jack or Pulseaudio right as far as I can
> see (if I don't run jack it endlessly changes the sample rate on my
> card - making lots of clicks and pops as it takes over 1 minute to
> start up!). I tried discussing problems on their forums but to no
> avail.

I use Audacity on 2 different machines, both 64-bit Debian Sid, with a 
UCA-202 USB sound card on the laptop and the now-working-again (YAY!) 
Audiophile on the desktop. With or without JACK, Audacity never changes 
the sample rate as you mention above. Doesn't take a minute to start up, 
either.

I think there's some more fundamental problem with your system setup 
than Audacity. Maybe Audacity's difficulties handling audio just make it 
more sensitive to the fundamental problem than other apps.

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