changing playback speed whilst playing an mp3 locks the whole desktop

[Jack Leigh]

Binary package hint: audacity

as title

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 10 18:44:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: audacity 1.3.9-6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.49-generic
SourcePackage: audacity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:10821): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:10821): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:10920): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:10925): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hi leighman and thanks for reporting this bug! If you can reproduce it, can you please start the program from the terminal and see if you get the error message "Libsamplerate only supports resampling factors between 1/12 and 12" in the terminal just before the hang?

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Hiya,

I get 4 lines of
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
when it opens but I can't see anything in the terminal when the actual error occurs.
At the moment I just have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. If there's a better thing to do, let me know and I'll try

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Any advice for a better way to get an error message?

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Using today's build from the daily build ppa no longer locks the system in this way.
The playback speed can't be changed dynamically using the slider but does work when set then 'play-at-speed' is pressed.
Don't know if that's the desired behaviour?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for audacity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Any news on this?

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I can change the slider, but the playback speed will not be updated until you press 'play-at-speed'. Please file a new bug if you want a different behavior (on the fly adjustment).

Moving the slider to the minimum and pressing 'play-at-speed' will result in a non-responding audacity (tested with 1.3.12-7 and 1.3.12+svn201011200027+r6474-0~maverick1):

Libsamplerate only supports resampling factors
between 1/12 and 12
Libsamplerate only supports resampling factors
between 1/12 and 12

[Thomas Grebenstein (thomas-grebenstein)]

Audacity crashes when playback speed is changed.
On http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.0.6 this bug is reported:

(Linux) Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift may crash randomly in Audacity built with pre-2.0.2 versions of libsbsms. This may occur for example in the Ubuntu package of Audacity 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 14.04. Workaround: Build Audacity configured --with-sbsms="local", or use the Audacity package in Ubuntu 14.10 which uses libsbsms 2.0.2-1.

Audacity came with libsbsms version 2.0.1-1. As a greenhorn I don't know neither how to build nor how to get the package in Ubuntu 14.10.

Wouldn't it be possible to ship audacity with the respective version of libsbsms?

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

This version of this package will receive no further updates. Please test against a currently supported version of this package and report a new bug against that version if the bug still exists.