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Audacity does not work with PulseAudio |
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Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:27 -0400 |
Since I can remember, Guix's Audacity doesn't work with PulseAudio on my
foreign distro (Debian).
Debian's Audacity does work correctly in this regard.
In practice, this means that I cannot play or record audio in Audacity
while any other application is using sound on the system. If I close or
stop those other applications, then Audacity is able to select the
'sysdefault' output sound device and can start working.
I found a few discussions about similar issues [0], and it seems that
Audacity needs alsa-plugins in order to make this work.
I tried installing Audacity along side alsa-plugins,
alsa-plugins:pulseaudio, and pulseaudio, as well as building with them
as dependencies, but it still didn't work.
[0] e.g. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=89278
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Re: bug#40832: alsa-lib cannot find its plugins |
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Mon, 1 Feb 2021 15:51:07 -0500 |
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:02:59PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Upstream has implemented (but not yet released) a potential solution:
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> https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/commit/8580c081c25678d11278efcb61bd15cf44d0a225
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> I haven't tested it yet but my understanding is that it supports
> specifying a single plugin directory via the ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR environment
> variable.
I'm very happy to report that this fix has been deployed for Guix users
in commit ed1c72c3d7d6b6d3b110817fcc037cd5582ac848
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