Audacity opens preferences dialog slowly

[Marf]

Binary package hint: audacity

Hallo I have problems with Audacity. My system:

1) Ubuntu 8.04 - the Hardy Heron
2) Audacity 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1

3) I have two Problems:

*1
I want to open the Settings of Audacity. With the Audacity-version of Ubuntu 7.1 I need only some seconds for that but with Ubuntu 8.04 and Audacity 1.3.4 beta I need 30 Seconds or more. But the settings will open (if I wait long enough). When I finished my work in the setting menu I want to confirm and close the setting menu. But this needs again 30 seconds up to one minute.

*2
This is the bigger problem!
I can't record the the stereo mix channel from my soundcard! With the Audacity of Ubuntu 7.1 I always choosed the "ALSA:default" as input device to capture the sound. With Audacity 1.3.4 and Ubuntu 8.04 I can't record sound from any input device! If I press the record-button in the main window I get the message that the input device can't open and the settings are maybe wrong.
I have tested all input devices that Audacity had. Always the same result.

best regards
Marf

[Marf (marcuswiederhold)]

Here some additional informations of my system:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 81)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 81)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GTX] (rev a1)
02:02.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:02.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:02.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
02:03.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

And as attachment lshal:

[Nukeador (nukeador)]

This is affecting a lot of people:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=594022
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749537

It seems to be related with PulseAudio. I'm unable to use Audacity anymore. Maybe change sound to ALSA and reboot would solve the problem.

[Nukeador (nukeador)]

Ok, I can confirm that switching to ALSA (System → Preferences → Sound) and changing Audacity preferences to use ALSA Default solves the problem. So, it's a conflict between PulseAudio and Audacity.

[Nukeador (nukeador)]

And just one appreciation more. This version (1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1) is completely buggy and unstable. audacity_1.3.3-1ubuntu0.1 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy-updates/i386/audacity/download) from gusty packages works perfect, no crash, no hangs.

[Marcos Felipe Mello (marcosfrm)]

I agree, this version is pretty bad. Maybe version 1.3.5 is better. It would be nice have a new version in hardy-updates.

[Jaime Carpenter (j.carpenter)]

I'm having the same problem with Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell D520. I'm using Audacity 1.3.4-beta.

[Frank Cheung (fcuk112)]

unable to produce these problems on audacity 1.3.9 (karmic latest) - can you please confirm whether these are still issues for you.

[queeny (kajsa)]

I have the same problem and the same audio card (different revision though I have rev 02). I'm using Karmic, Audacity 1.3.9

blah@muhfuggah:~$ lspci | grep udio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

I cannot switch to ALSA in Karmic since the option to do so isn't there anymore

From Audacity audio device info:

==============================
Default capture device number: 5
Default playback device number: 5
==============================
Device ID: 0
Device name: ALSA: HDA Intel: ALC262 Analog (hw:0,0)
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0.011610
Low Output Latency: -1.000000
High Input Latency: 0.046440
High Output Latency: -1.000000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Device ID: 1
Device name: ALSA: HDA Intel: ALC262 Digital (hw:0,1)
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: -1.000000
Low Output Latency: 0.011610
High Input Latency: -1.000000
High Output Latency: 0.046440
Supported Rates:
    44100
    48000
    96000
    192000
==============================
Device ID: 2
Device name: ALSA: iec958
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: -1.000000
Low Output Latency: 0.011610
High Input Latency: -1.000000
High Output Latency: 0.046440
Supported Rates:
    44100
    48000
    96000
    192000
==============================
Device ID: 3
Device name: ALSA: spdif
Input channels: 0
Output channels: 2
Low Input Latency: -1.000000
Low Output Latency: 0.011610
High Input Latency: -1.000000
High Output Latency: 0.046440
Supported Rates:
    44100
    48000
    96000
    192000
==============================
Device ID: 4
Device name: ALSA: pulse
Input channels: 32
Output channels: 32
Low Input Latency: 0.011610
Low Output Latency: 0.011610
High Input Latency: 0.046440
High Output Latency: 0.046440
Supported Rates:
    8000
    9600
    11025
    12000
    15000
    16000
    22050
    24000
    32000
    44100
    48000
    88200
    96000
    192000
==============================
Device ID: 5
Device name: ALSA: default
Input channels: 32
Output channels: 32
Low Input Latency: 0.011610
Low Output Latency: 0.011610
High Input Latency: 0.046440
High Output Latency: 0.046440
Supported Rates:
    8000
    9600
    11025
    12000
    15000
    16000
    22050
    24000
    32000
    44100
    48000
    88200
    96000
    192000
==============================
Device ID: 6
Device name: OSS: /dev/dsp
Input channels: 16
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0.011610
Low Output Latency: 0.000000
High Input Latency: 0.046440
High Output Latency: 0.000000
Supported Rates:
==============================
Selected capture device: 4 - ALSA: pulse
Selected playback device: 5 - ALSA: default
Supported Rates:
    8000
    9600
    11025
    12000
    15000
    16000
    22050
    24000
    32000
    44100
    48000
    88200
    96000
    192000
==============================
Available mixers:
==============================
Available capture sources:
0 - Mic:0
1 - Int Mic:0
2 - CD:0
3 - Mic:1
4 - Int Mic:1
5 - CD:1
6 - Mic:2
7 - Int Mic:2
8 - CD:2
==============================
Available playback volumes:
0 - Master:0
1 - PCM:0
2 - CD:0
3 - ...

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

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