Ubuntu
alsa-driver package

no sound out of audacity with default playback device

Asked by bob

I am having trouble with audacity recently. this is with the latest version of audacity (snap pak i believe). i also did a direct install of it with --devmode to enable it to access a mounted drive.

so the issue is that i cannot get any sound now out of it when playing a loaded music file. it seems to be audacity specific as i can play things with another program (e.g. clementine.

when i open up audacity preferences, i see
host: ALSA
playback device: default

here is info from running this alsa-insh script

2020-12-03 10:04:08 (95.0 MB/s) - ‘alsa-info.sh’ saved [26915]

ALSA Information Script v 0.4.65
--------------------------------

This script visits the following commands/files to collect diagnostic
information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware.

  dmesg
  lspci
  aplay
  amixer
  alsactl
  rpm, dpkg
  /proc/asound/
  /sys/class/sound/
  ~/.asoundrc (etc.)

See './alsa-info.sh --help' for command line options.

dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted
Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org? [y/N] : y
Uploading information to www.alsa-project.org ... Done!

Your ALSA information is located at http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=c1471fcd7062329798847b68de03948d24b6771f
Please inform the person helping you.
============

lastly, here is the version info
!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version: k5.8.0-31-generic
Library version: 1.2.3.2
Utilities version: 1.2.3

and i am running ubuntu 20.10 and should be fully up-to-date with things.

hoping someone can help cause i am not sure what is going on here.

thanks

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) said : 		#1

Do you have the same issue using a regular .deb package?

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bob (bordeaux99) said : 		#2

hi Daniel, thanks for responding to this.

after reading the cautions for the linux version on the audacity webpage, i decided to do a compile of the code, following their instructions. (it was a first compile of code for me and it went ok, which was nice to see).

after that, audacity is now working fine.

so i will close this ticket.

bob