[SLUG] Audacity

[Stephen O'Neill]

Pete Redwood wrote:
> Is anybody on this list using Ubuntu and if so have they updated to
> 8.04?


Yup - I do... had a couple of issues but ironed them all out and I am 
now happy customer.


> I have been using Audacity for sound recording since way back when, but
> with the new update it refuses to work. It comes back with the message
> 'Error opening sound source'. Using the terminal to start it shows that
> it is trying to connect to Alsa via the src/hostapi folder, which does
> not exist on my computer and as far as I can tel is only valid if you
> compile from source. The version now in use, 1.3.4, is the only one that
> will run because all the dependencies have changed. I don't really want
> play about compiling a version myself. Any suggestions.


Doesn't 8.04 use pulseaudio rather than Alsa? It is a bit of a shame 
that 1.3.4 shows as a beta on the audacity site, not good news.

Does sound output work ok?

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