Getting Audacity to play nice with other sound applications
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:08 am
(The answer might be to use ReZound and abandon Audacity...)
Spent some time trying to get Audacity to use JACK. Searches suggest that you have to compile your own Audacity with JACK support, and even then many report JACK crashing.
I can live with out JACK support. Presently I can't run Audacity and JACK at the same time. If I have Audacity up and working (with Prefs > Audio I/O > Playback Device = ALSA (default)) and then I start JACK, Audacity will start giving me "error opening sound device when I try to play something. I've read suggestions of invoking Audacity with
to avoid this, but I still have the same problem when JACK is started.
I think that there is a similar conflict with Rhythmbox and other applications.
Is there a workaround that I haven't found?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Spent some time trying to get Audacity to use JACK. Searches suggest that you have to compile your own Audacity with JACK support, and even then many report JACK crashing.
I can live with out JACK support. Presently I can't run Audacity and JACK at the same time. If I have Audacity up and working (with Prefs > Audio I/O > Playback Device = ALSA (default)) and then I start JACK, Audacity will start giving me "error opening sound device when I try to play something. I've read suggestions of invoking Audacity with
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aoss audacity
I think that there is a similar conflict with Rhythmbox and other applications.
Is there a workaround that I haven't found?
Thanks for any thoughts.