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Audacity doesn't support PulseAudio, nor Esound for the moment. You'll
have to kill or suspend pulseaudio before you use this
application. Audacity uses the PortAudio cross-platform Audio API which
doesnt support pulseaudio. Some work was started on making portaudio
support PulseAudio but this does not appear to be under active
development currently and does not work in it's current state.

Audacity can use OSS for sound input and sound output. By changing the 2
settings in preferences to /dev/dsp, and running audacity as

padsp audacity

you route OSS sound through pulseaudio and can have successful playback
and recording with audacity. You could also set the sound input to be
ALSA which (for regular users) is less likely to be blocked by another
application, as recording with multiple applications at once is less
commonly done

Using pasuspender to momentarily suspend pulseaudio is another way to
use Audacity.

pasuspender -- audacity <argument>

OTOH upstream seems to be against it:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3D14&t=3D3541

However there seems to be a patch for audacity to actually support this
nevertheless. But unless someone steps forward to examine and discuss
that patch with upstream, I'd vote for setting this bug to
wishlist/wontfix.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4