autotalent plugin for audacity fails to load

[Eric Chu]

Trying to use the "autotalent" plugin, was working in bionic, but is now failing to load the Audacity plugin in focal. Architecture is amd64.

Steps to reproduce

apt-get install audacity autotalent

Run audacity.

Select Tools -> Add/Remove Plugins

under "New" plugins, select autotalent, and then click enable. An error message indicates that the plugin fails to load.

[Job (job-a-gorree)]

Same problem, very anoying

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Unfortunately, autotalent hasn't been updated by the upstream author in 7 years (see https://github.com/olilarkin/autotalent), so it may be suffering from bitrot. Basically, there's no way to fix it in autotalent, so marking as "Won't Fix" (please interpret as "Can't Fix").

HOWEVER, this may be a regression in Audacity, so adding the audacity package to this bug report.

Additionally, this bug was not reported correctly. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1873037

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Eric Chu (echu888)]

Note, since the bug was filed, I've changed my environment. Now running on Groovy Gorilla (20.10). I've re-installed both audacity and autotalent, and the plugin seems to be loading file.

audacity: 2.4.2~dfsg0-3 amd64
autotalent: 0.2-6 amd64

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

If that's the case, then the bug has been fixed in Audacity. Unfortunately, there's no way of knowing which bug it is in order to do a proper patch/backport unless someone can chime-in.

However, we'll need a new bug report since the OP is unable to reproduce this bug on their current environment, and since proper bug information was not gathered. Therefore, I'm removing this bug as affecting Audacity and marking as invalid for autotalent.

@job-a-gorree, if you could possibly post a new bug by typing 'ubuntu-bug audacity' in a terminal in order to collect the proper debugging information, that would be great.