Audacity “error while opening sound device”
Old faithful Audacity, the easy sound editing programme has been disappointing me for a while now, in the sense that I can open a sound, convert it to another format, but I cannot listen to it (highly unpractical for a sound editor)…
“error while opening sound device”
Now, I have looked for some solutions – and this Ubuntu forum post seems to be the most promising at the moment:::
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=710881
I still need to try these suggestions – and promise to report back on the easiest one.
* System used: Ubuntu 8.04, realtime kernel 2.6.24*
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Sorry answering so late…
Please check going at Edit/Preferences, and see what you have at Audio I/O, and if Device from Playback and Recording are fine – and try to see what you get by trial and error, with microphones, speakers, etc. – i think this should be enough…
February 25th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Well, I’m sorry to answer late back 🙂
I have tried all kinds of combinations in the preferences of audacity – but they did in a way not correspond to the settings in the sound preferences of Ubuntu. Linux and audio can be quite strange sometimes.
From time to time I have audio in a firefox and not in a media player such as vlc. When I close firefox, sound is back.
You have all these processes sometimes running parallel, sometimes without dominance. Jackd for example, the audio server, does take over a lot, but not firefox, nor audacity..
Linux and audio does stay exciting – and mysterious – which most of the time is ok, but sometimes.. 😉
March 10th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I’ve been having the same trouble. Something in Firefox is holding a resource that Audacity is looking to use. Often, I can clear it by taking out a Yahoo mail tab, other times killing Firefox is required. Maybe a Java thing?
I don’t have Jack, I’ve got ALSA.