Bug#874263: audacity: Sound playback is distorted or clipped

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Package: audacity
Version: 2.1.2-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Audacity playback sounds distorted, almost as though it is clipping,
when the audio file contains louder sounds.  Exporting the audio from
Audacity to WAV and playing through VLC or other players, it sounds
fine, so the data is not clipped itself, just sounds like it during
playback.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  audacity-data       2.1.2-2
ii  libasound2          1.1.3-5
ii  libavcodec57        7:3.2.7-1~deb9u1
ii  libavformat57       7:3.2.7-1~deb9u1
ii  libavutil55         7:3.2.7-1~deb9u1
ii  libc6               2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libexpat1           2.2.0-2+deb9u1
ii  libflac++6v5        1.3.2-1
ii  libflac8            1.3.2-1
ii  libgcc1             1:6.3.0-18
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.31-2
ii  libid3tag0          0.15.1b-12
ii  liblilv-0-0         0.24.2~dfsg0-1
ii  libmad0             0.15.1b-8
ii  libmp3lame0         3.99.5+repack1-9+b2
ii  libogg0             1.3.2-1
ii  libportaudio2       19.6.0-1
ii  libportsmf0         0.1~svn20101010-5
ii  libsbsms10          2.0.2-2
ii  libsndfile1         1.0.27-3
ii  libsoundtouch1      1.9.2-2+b1
ii  libsoxr0            0.1.2-2
ii  libstdc++6          6.3.0-18
ii  libsuil-0-0         0.8.4~dfsg0-2
ii  libtwolame0         0.3.13-2
ii  libvamp-hostsdk3v5  2.6~repack0-3
ii  libvorbis0a         1.3.5-4
ii  libvorbisenc2       1.3.5-4
ii  libvorbisfile3      1.3.5-4
ii  libwxbase3.0-0v5    3.0.2+dfsg-4
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0v5     3.0.2+dfsg-4

audacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
pn  ladspa-plugin  <none>

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