Bug#516692: audacity: no PulseAudio devices presented

Ben Finney ben+debian at benfinney.id.au
Tue Feb 24 23:45:56 UTC 2009


On 23-Feb-2009, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+debian at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 
> > This is a problem on systems that *only* have audio working via
> > PulseAudio. For example, an X desktop running on a remote server,
> > which must communicate over the network to a workstation running a
> > PulseAudio server that controls the workstation's audio devices.
> 
> From http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#Audacity
> 
> Audacity doesn't support PulseAudio, nor Esound for the moment.
> You'll have to kill or suspend pulseaudio before you use this
> application.

Note that this doesn't help for the situation described above, where
pulseaudio is *required* for access to the audio devices.

> 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.

Perhaps this bug is best applied to portaudio then? I don't know the
answer to that question.

> 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

This does work, but could hardly be called a fix for this bug; more a
worksaround.

> OTOH upstream seems to be against it:
> http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3541

That discussion also ignores the possibility of the situation
described in this bug report (that pulseaudio is required for access
to some audio setups).

> 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.

Can I ask that the package manager perform that advocacy on behalf of
package users?

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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