Just upgraded to TW 20260223 and some audio apps don’t start anymore.
For Gnome Audio Player (aka Decibels) the problem has been reported upstream, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/decibels/-/issues/151
Audacity starts the splash screen and stays there until killed.
The upgrade to pipewire 1.6 seemed the perfect culprit, but reverting to 1.5.85 doesn’t help, neither did booting kernel 6.19.2.
Some other audio apps work though (checked Totem, Sonic Visualizer, Deadbeef, mpv).
[Late at night here, further debugging tomorrow…]
I’m running the flatpak devel version…
EDIT: Audacity runs with a fresh user or by deleting the ~/.config/audacity directory, so maybe there was an incompatible setting with the new pipewire.
Piggybacking, I also needed to reboot before Audacity would open. Appreciate the fix. All my other video/audio apps are working as normal (I’m not using GNOME).
Losing my config is irksome! I’ve got a backup so if the culprit is found, I can adjust it.
It looks like replacing only the ~/.config/audacity/audacity.cfg file is enough, but I didn’t find a specific setting so far, even if I guess that it might be in the [AudioIO] section.
I can confirm that replacing the whole [AudioIO] section in the backup ~/.config/audacity/audacity.cfg file with that from a fresh user fixes the Audacity startup.
Of course YMMV but you might be able to retrieve your other settings.
Snapshot TW20260302 fixed Gnome Audio Player. Since that was a full rebuild and apparently all packages were upgraded, I will not attempt to find out what exactly fixed the issue.
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