Re: [LAU] Gutsy problems with Audacity opening sound device

Not 100% sure if this is correct on my part ... but if some other
process is using the audio driver, then Audacity can't. So, stop the
other process using the driver :)

In my Gusty I run KDE and have set the Auto-Suspend after idle in System
Settings -> Sound. I run this with a 30 second timeout. So, if I have a
mp3 player running I just stop it; wait 30 seconds, then run audacity
and it all works.

It appears your friend has the correct audio drivers.

hope this helps.

Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi
>
> I and a friend are both having problems using Audacity to edit music
> files. In my case, I am trying to edit an .ogg vorbis file, and in his
> case, he is trying to edit a file that he recorded with Audacity. He is
> a 69 year-old man, and I am trying to assist him over the phone, so it
> is kind of hard to get complete details from him, but, fortunately, I am
> having the same problem on my Gutsy install with Audacity 1.3.3-beta.
> Here is the exact error message that we are getting:
>
> Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device
> settings and the project sample rate.
>
> I have googled and found that there are a lot of problems with Gutsy
> getting this error message. The suggested solutions fall into two
> camps, neither of which has worked for me. The first camp is grepping
> for the jackd process and killing it in the shell; the second involves
> making sure that you have sound privileges (we do) and that you are
> using the correct sound device (not sure how to tell about that). The
> helpful links on these topics are below:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=710881
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/26900
>
> Grepping, I get no responses to jackd at all:
>
> cje@email-addr-hidden:~$ ps -e|grep jackd
> cje@email-addr-hidden:~$ ps -A | grep jackd
> cje@email-addr-hidden:~$ ps -A | grep jack*
> cje@email-addr-hidden:~$ ps -A | grep jack
> cje@email-addr-hidden:~$ ps -e > jackd_test.txt
> cje@email-addr-hidden:~$
>
> As you can see, I directed the grep output to a txt file, and I looked
> at the txt file, and sure enough, no jackd. So that solution won't seem
> to work.
>
> With regard to the potential solution of choosing the "correct" sound
> device, as suggested by the second link above, I went to
>
> Edit > preferences > Audio I/O
>
> and found that these are my choices: not sure which are right, and I'm
> not sure I want to go messing around with settings until I know what is up:
>
> ALSA: HDA ATI SB: ALC883 Digital (hw:0,1)
> ALSA: default
> ALSA: iec958
> ALSA: spdif
> ALSA: dmix
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> --
> Christian Einfeldt,
> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
>
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