Audacity: No sound, no nothing (gnome)

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In Gnome audacity wont work, I need this app because I use it to convert files to MP3.
I need to hear the song too as I sometime use audacity to edit songs, but whats the use of sound editing when you cant hear the file you want to edit.
I think its pulse that is at fault here, but I cant change anything about my frontend for sound.
In Ubuntu I have the option to use ALSA, but here I dont have that option and my sound card might not have full pulse capacity.
I really need this working

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Hei,

The last time I tried audacity it worked for me so can’t help you there, however, I prefer to use Rezound, you might try that one.

If you just need to convert between different formats, you might try pacpl or audiokonverter.

Cheers

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TaraIkeda adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 15 May 2009 14:26 to write:

>
> In Gnome audacity wont work, I need this app because I use it to convert
> files to MP3.
> I need to hear the song too as I sometime use audacity to edit songs,
> but whats the use of sound editing when you cant hear the file you want
> to edit.
> I think its pulse that is at fault here, but I cant change anything
> about my frontend for sound.
> In Ubuntu I have the option to use ALSA, but here I dont have that
> option and my sound card might not have full pulse capacity.
> I really need this working
>
>

If you do not want to use Pulse ( which I do bot ) then just uninstall
everything that has to do with pulse, I think you might have to leave
libpulse.

I did this and do not have any probs at all.

You might have to change a few prefs but mine works with everything I have
tried so far but I only use KDE4 for DE but I do have gnome installed as
well and the apps do work.

YMMV.

HTH

–
Mark

Nullus in verba
Nil illigitimi carborundum

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TaraIkeda, sorry I do not use Gnome, and hence unfortunately I can not help you there.

Audacity does work for me in KDE-3.5.10.

But having typed that, for KDE users (which unfortunately does not help you) rather than use Audacity to convert video files to the proprietary mp3 format, if I do wish to use that format, I suggest you use PACPL packaged for KDE with a plug in for konqueror. PackMan :: Information on pacpl

With that installed I simply right click on the file from konqueror, select ‘actions’ and ‘pacpl convert’ and ‘mp3’ and the file is converted.

Hopefully an experienced gnome user can chime in and offer an equally simple and equally integrated gnome way of doing this.

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Well I have both Gnome and KDE4 here, but it is indeed odd that in KDE4 Audacity works but not in Gnome.
Lucky I switch between gnome and KDE on my system

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TaraIkeda, Gnome and KDE tend to handle audio differently. Back in the old “pre-pulse” days, aRts was the default KDE analog Real time synthesizer used by KDE, although one could often bypass it, and go direct to the alsa API, or access other sound APIs. I’m not a Gnome user, but I read that Gnome tended to use ESD (EsounD - the Enlightened sound daemon), and/or in some cases, applications would instead interface to gstreamer. But it was still possible for a user in Gnome to bypass those and go direct to the alsa API.

I recorded the very little I know about this here: Sound-concepts - openSUSE in the hope that more knowledgeable users would contribute and fix any errors, and also that it might help other users.

Now if this (audacity) works for you in KDE and not in Gnome, that would make me highly suspicious that you can get this to work in Gnome by selecting the appropriate configuration in audacity. I’ve never had to do this myself, but if it were me, I would check out some of the settings in Audacity under “Edit” > “Preferences” > “Audio I/O” > “Playback” and “Recording” .

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Sorry I can’t help with your Audacity problem. But I just wanted to recommend you a good program for converting audio files (even all files in folders), it works in Java, it is jRipper:
dronten - jRipper
http://dronten.googlepages.com/jripper.png/jripper-full;init:.png
Give it a try.

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I don’t use Gnome/PulseAudio. So, would you do mind trying the package at: Index of /repositories/home:/RedDwarf:/branches:/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_11.1?

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I have to submit a patch anyway. If nobody can confirm that package fixes the problem (I have a sound card that does hardware mixing, so I never have it), tomorrow I will send the patch without this fix. After that, if someone wants to test it the patch is available at [pkgs] View of /rpms/audacity/devel/audacity-1.3.7-portaudio-non-mmap-alsa.patch](http://cvs.fedoraproject.org:80/viewvc/rpms/audacity/devel/audacity-1.3.7-portaudio-non-mmap-alsa.patch?view=markup), recompile with it.

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I just ran across this problem in Audacity – hope it helps others with the same problem. I have Gnome in openSUSE 11.1 64 bit and no sound in Audacity when playing back.

Open Edit –> Preferences –> Device –> Playback –> change to Pulse. Mine set by default to something else but my system is using pulse, so when I changed to what my system is using, it worked fine.

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I was told to remove pulseaudio in order to fix the lack of sound in my Pavillion lappie. I use Audacity in order to edit sound files, but I currently have to switch to XP to do that because though all sounds work on my laptop, Audacity can’t seem to access the record or playback systems…:cry: