Getting Audacity to work in Hardy Heron
Audacity is a multi track recording application. It is easy to install from Ubuntu. However, getting sound to run in Linux can present challenges as the number of soundcards vary so greatly. Trying to get Audacity to work on my 3000 N200 Lenovo I finally found a trick that worked - almost.
Go toAccessories > Terminal, and enter in the following:
sudo apt-get remove jackd
Credit goes to http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4812244&postcount=5.
jack is a set of drivers to let applications speak directly. Some of the cool new high end digital processing software packages need jack, but I couldn’t get it to run. Removing it made Audacity run - almost. ALSA stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Many applications use this. OSS is the old sound architecture. I was unable to get OSS to both play and record, and before I removed jackd I was unable to get ALSA options to work.
For those that have not tried Linux yet, I’m sure this is all kind of techie, but to summarize, the beauty of Linux are these choices. You are not stuck if one does not work. And if all else fails, google, and find text commands to help you out when there is no gui.
On my desktop, the sound card there may work great. So far, the play back stutters when I try to record, which is pretty much the idea of a multitrack recorder. I can use it as a multitrack mixer, and I can record. My fall back plan is my BR532 4 track digital recorder for mobile work. My desktop sound card I hope will be just a bit more compatible.
But if you are struggling to get Audacity to work, try the above command. It will be removed, however, and I am not sure how to un-remove it.
- the MuseTags: Linux
