[Audacity-users] Audacity, pulse audio, archlinux problems

[Aaron Laws]

When I run audacity, I get the following output:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/15929975/

Opening a file works as expected, but when I play, no sound is heard. The
application (graphically) acts like it's playing.

My audacity version is 2.1.2

Program build date: Jan 20 2016
Commit Id: No revision identifier was provided
Build type: Release build
Installation Prefix: /usr
Settings folder: /home/lawsa/.audacity-data

It looks like the application isn't connecting to pulse audio at all; it's
ignoring the pulse audio server. I have other computers with basically the
same set up, and this works. I remember that this worked perhaps 6 months
or so ago, and I don't know what change predicated this failure.

Please let me know how I can configure audacity (manually?) to connect to
pulse audio, or what I should do to collect more information about this.
Thank you!

In Christ,
Aaron Laws

[Steve the Fiddle]

Post by Aaron Laws
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15929975/
Opening a file works as expected, but when I play, no sound is heard. The
application (graphically) acts like it's playing.
My audacity version is 2.1.2
Program build date: Jan 20 2016
Commit Id: No revision identifier was provided
Build type: Release build
Installation Prefix: /usr
Settings folder: /home/lawsa/.audacity-data
It looks like the application isn't connecting to pulse audio at all; it's
ignoring the pulse audio server. I have other computers with basically the
same set up, and this works. I remember that this worked perhaps 6 months or
so ago, and I don't know what change predicated this failure.
Please let me know how I can configure audacity (manually?) to connect to
pulse audio, or what I should do to collect more information about this.

Select "pulse" as the recording and playback devices in the device toolbar
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html

If "Pulse" is not an available option, try logging out and back in
again, then launch Audacity before you open any other audio
applications.

(Pulse may not be available if you are running Jack Audio System)

Steve

Post by Aaron Laws
Thank you!
In Christ,
Aaron Laws
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[Aaron Laws]

Post by Steve the Fiddle

Post by Aaron Laws
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15929975/
Opening a file works as expected, but when I play, no sound is heard. The
application (graphically) acts like it's playing.
My audacity version is 2.1.2
Program build date: Jan 20 2016
Commit Id: No revision identifier was provided
Build type: Release build
Installation Prefix: /usr
Settings folder: /home/lawsa/.audacity-data

Select "pulse" as the recording and playback devices in the device toolbar
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html

That webpage isn't very helpful because the images don't work. Here is my
interface https://vid.me/IR56. I hope that shows what you're talking about.
If I am following correctly, I see ALSA where I would like to see Pulse
Audio and Alsa, no?

Post by Steve the Fiddle
(Pulse may not be available if you are running Jack Audio System)

I don't think I'm running jack. I use pavucontrol to modify volume levels,
etc., and I'm pretty sure everything plays through pulse audio. I do have
jack installed, though. Just now, I checked why, and this is what I got:

***@ryle~$ pactree -r jack


jack
├─lilv
│ └─audacity
└─simplescreenrecorder
***@ryle~$

This means that jack is depended on by lilv and simplescreenrecorder. Lilv
is depended on by audacity. You can see this latter relationship here:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/audacity/
(click on lilv, and notice that jack is a dependency). I just removed these
four packages and installed audacity, which gives the following output:


Packages (4) jack-0.124.1-6 lilv-0.22.0-2 audacity-2.1.2-1

Total Installed Size: 23.34 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 22.23 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]


The fact that jack is installed has not hindered other archlinux computers
of mine from running audacity. Do you have any recommendations given this
state of things?

Aaron

[Steve the Fiddle]

There is a temporary problem with the on-line manual. It is currently
being worked on and will hopefully be fixed soon.
If you can't wait, there is a download link for the manual on the
website: http://www.audacity.audio/help/documentation/

Steve

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Steve the Fiddle

Post by Steve the Fiddle

Post by Aaron Laws
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15929975/
Opening a file works as expected, but when I play, no sound is heard. The
application (graphically) acts like it's playing.
My audacity version is 2.1.2
Program build date: Jan 20 2016
Commit Id: No revision identifier was provided
Build type: Release build
Installation Prefix: /usr
Settings folder: /home/lawsa/.audacity-data

Select "pulse" as the recording and playback devices in the device toolbar
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html

That webpage isn't very helpful because the images don't work. Here is my
interface https://vid.me/IR56. I hope that shows what you're talking about.
If I am following correctly, I see ALSA where I would like to see Pulse
Audio and Alsa, no?

Post by Steve the Fiddle
(Pulse may not be available if you are running Jack Audio System)

I don't think I'm running jack. I use pavucontrol to modify volume levels,
etc., and I'm pretty sure everything plays through pulse audio. I do have
jack
├─lilv
│ └─audacity
└─simplescreenrecorder
This means that jack is depended on by lilv and simplescreenrecorder. Lilv
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/audacity/
(click on lilv, and notice that jack is a dependency). I just removed these
Packages (4) jack-0.124.1-6 lilv-0.22.0-2 audacity-2.1.2-1
Total Installed Size: 23.34 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 22.23 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
The fact that jack is installed has not hindered other archlinux computers
of mine from running audacity. Do you have any recommendations given this
state of things?
Aaron
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* Exactly what three digit version number of Audacity you are using (Help > About
Audacity, or Audacity > About Audacity on a Mac computer)
* If this is a recording problem, what equipment you are recording with, and how is it
connected to the computer?
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[Aaron Laws]

Post by Steve the Fiddle
There is a temporary problem with the on-line manual. It is currently
being worked on and will hopefully be fixed soon.
If you can't wait, there is a download link for the manual on the
website: http://www.audacity.audio/help/documentation/
Steve

Right. I downloaded the documentation and see that when you say, "Select
"pulse" as the recording and playback devices in the device toolbar",
you're talking about the second and fourth of those dropdowns. (Just now,
I'm not concerned about recording, but perhaps that's beside the point.) As
you can see from the video I posted, "pulse" isn't in the Playback Devices
dropdown.

How do I get pulse to show up in the playback devices dropdown? Do you have
any comments on the rest of what I said about jack? Thanks!

[Aaron Laws]

Oh my goodness. I've been living with the fact that I can't use audacity
because I can't hear output for like 8 months. I just changed the playback
thing from "HDA ATI SB: ALC889 Digital (hw:0,0)" to "HDA ATI SB: ALC889
Analog (hw:0,0)" (not "pulse"). That made sound. Now I see that many of the
output devices make sound. I thought I changed this before and
experimented, but I'm glad that the stars have decided to align in my favor.

Thanks, Steve the Fiddler!


In Christ,
Aaron Laws