[Sussex] Audacity error

[Rupert Swarbrick]

That does happen if something else is using the sound device at the same 
time, although maybe audacity gives a more specific error message (I 
can't remember).

Make sure that xmms et al. aren't running when you try to use audacity.

Otherwise, maybe some sort of sound server is using it?

Or maybe it's something completely different! :-)

Rupert

>Hi all,
>
>I'm having a problem with the sound editor, Audacity. It worked fine the
>first time I ran it in Ubuntu, but ever since then it displays an error
>message: "There was an error initialising the audio i/o layer. You will
>not be able to play or record audio. Error: HOST ERROR".
>
>Audacity starts up after this message & will edit & save files quite
>happily, but it won't play anything. I have to play any saved files in
>XMMS. The preferences screen in Audacity doesn't offer anything to
>select in either playback or recording device options
>
>I can't see what the problem can be. I didn't make any changes between
>the first & second time I opened Audacity.
>
>XMMS is happy, MIDI is working. All seems well as far as I can
>determine.
>
>If it helps, I have Gnome 2.8, no KDE stuff at all (KDE artsd was
>suggested as a possible problem in a Linux Audio Group), ALSA (although
>I can also use OSS).
>
>Any help appreciated,
>
>TIA
>
>Gavin.
>
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