From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: bug#40832: Audacity does not work with PulseAudio Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:27 -0400 Message-ID: <20200424213727.GA11710@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS61L-0004bz-V2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:38:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS61L-0000w4-3p for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:38:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS61K-0000vy-Mp for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:38:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jS61K-00024L-J8 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:38:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS60p-0003nJ-Oe for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS60p-0008Nw-5v for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:31 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:49417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS60o-0008NN-LU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (c-76-124-138-63.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [76.124.138.63]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 74D42328005E for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 40832@debbugs.gnu.org Since I can remember, Guix's Audacity doesn't work with PulseAudio on my foreign distro (Debian). Debian's Audacity does work correctly in this regard. In practice, this means that I cannot play or record audio in Audacity while any other application is using sound on the system. If I close or stop those other applications, then Audacity is able to select the 'sysdefault' output sound device and can start working. I found a few discussions about similar issues [0], and it seems that Audacity needs alsa-plugins in order to make this work. I tried installing Audacity along side alsa-plugins, alsa-plugins:pulseaudio, and pulseaudio, as well as building with them as dependencies, but it still didn't work. [0] e.g. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=89278