[Hardy] Error while opening sound device when trying to record a second track

[Aaron Whitehouse]

Binary package hint: audacity

Using an up-to-date Hardy install.

Steps to reproduce:
1) open audacity
2) click the record button and record a track.
3) press stop (or press Ctrl+Shift+N to open new track)
4) press record

The following error is displayed:
"Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate."

Note that it works fine to record a track, press stop, open a new _file_ and press record.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

$ apt-cache policy audacity
audacity:
  Installed: 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[AndyB (web-mycoted)]

I get the same, also 8.04 - This may be only with v 1.3.4 of audacity though - I've heard 1.3.3 works fine ..... odd to test

[Neil Baillie (nbaillie)]

I had exactly the same problem using 1.3.3 in gutsy. (Haven't yet tried it in 1.3.4)

[Per Stromgren (per-stromgren)]

We have the same error, except that we cannot even record the first track, when using 1.3.4 on Gutsy and Hardy.

1. Is there a workaround known?
2. Is there a way to back out of 1.3.4 and use 1.3.3 instead?

Per and son.

[Per Stromgren (per-stromgren)]

As a workaround, it worked for us to remove jackd.

Per.

[Steve Melvin (jinksys)]

I had this same issue. I went into preferences and noticed that audacity was using OSS for audio. I set playback and recording to "ALSA: default" and everything seems to be working perfectly. I was able to record multi-track audio clips without any problem.

[Fernando Muñoz (fmunozs)]

Same issue, I had to remove jackd too.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Frank Cheung (fcuk112)]

i am unable to reproduce this bug in audacity 1.3.9 (latest karmic). can anyone see if they can still produce it?

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!