[SOLVED] Audacity audio routing problem Debian Stretch

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jlinkels · #1 Post by **jlinkels** » 2019-04-05 00:33

As usual after every upgrade Audacity givers problems again.
Debian Stretch
KDE Plasma 5
Audacity 2.1.2

In Audacity I can only select ALSA as output. When playback in Audacity I see "ALSA output" in PulseAudio Volume Control. But I can change the volume only in Alsamixer. And, what is worse, ALSA is stuck to speaker output and I don't see an option to route it to my USB headphone. In PavuControl I cannot select another output but my built-in Speakers.

This worked perfectly well in Jessie where I could route Audacity's output to Pulse and set everything (output device, volume) there. I can't imagine I have to revert to ALSA config files again.

jlinkels

stevepusser · #2 Post by **stevepusser** » 2019-04-05 20:16

Is Audacity 2.3.1 any better?

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... t/audacity

jlinkels · #3 Post by **jlinkels** » 2019-04-06 14:01

@stevepusser: that is a very usefule site, thanks for the pointer.
However I run in severe dependency problems for version 2.3. Dependent packages are simple not available yet for Debian 9.0. Unless I add some packages from Testing which I cannot do as this is a production system.

jlinkels

stevepusser · #4 Post by **stevepusser** » 2019-04-06 21:27

Balderdash. My OBS Audacity packages are built on vanilla Stretch and Jessie bases, and need nothing that's not in the standard repositories. Unless you can show me otherwise, again I cry, "poppycock, hokum, and bunk!"

#5 Post by **4D696B65** » 2019-04-06 22:29

stevepusser wrote:Balderdash. -snip- again I cry, "poppycock, hokum, and bunk!"

Watch your language Steve, this is a family forum.

stevepusser · #6 Post by **stevepusser** » 2019-04-08 01:03

Why, a murrain and pox upon thee, thou blatherskite!

jlinkels · #7 Post by **jlinkels** » 2019-09-12 11:39

I solved this problem by deleting ~/.asoundrc. Apparently there was a conflict between Pulse and Alsa. Until the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch is worked fine though.

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jlinkels

#8 Post by **sunrat** » 2019-09-12 23:35

jlinkels wrote:I solved this problem by deleting ~/.asoundrc. Apparently there was a conflict between Pulse and Alsa. Until the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch is worked fine though.

Glad you got there eventually. I have had issues caused by ~/.asoundrc . As it's not a default file and must be created by user, it is susceptible to unwanted side effects when following well-intentioned advice from the internet.

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