I just installed Audacity to make a quick edit on an a MP3 file. I installed 2.1.2 from the default Linux Mint repo, opened Audacity and selected my file. It played over my headphones just fine. I closed Audacity, then immediately opened it again to select a different file to edit. As Audacity opened I heard an audible 'click' over my headphones. I could no longer hear anything over my headphones whether in Audacity or via browser/youtube or other media player.
I discovered an AskUbuntu question with the same problem. An answer there said that we just needed to open Audacity and select Internal Mic:0. Tried that, and presto had audio over my headphones again. Another answer on the same question recommended upgrading from 2.1.2 to the current (then) version of 2.2.0 to get around the bug in the future. I then uninstalled 2.1.2, and installed 2.2.2 from the ubuntuhandbook repo. Opened Audacity 2.2.2, only to discover that I now have no headphone volume again, and this time changing the output to Internal Mic:0 did not work. In fact, I cannot get headphone output on any of the 10 output options. Nothing plays over headphones now, not youtube/browser, not files in VLC. Installing Audacity has literally broken my laptops ability to listen to music over headphones. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257956 Title: Headphones stopped working after use of Audacity. They are detected, but no sound is produced. Status in alsa-driver package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: I'm running 13.10 and the latest GNOME. I've just fresh installed everything and the problem has occured again the same way. I would like to be able to use audacity, but I suppose in the mean time I will just reinstall everything. Steps to reproduce : 1) Install audacity 2.0.3 from official Ubuntu repositories 2) Open Audacity and play something with it 3) That's it : no more headphones sound. - alsa log created with 'alsa-info.sh' (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo) : http://paste.ubuntu.com/7131709/ - pulse log when I plug in my headphones, I run a MP3 file with VLC, close VLC then unplug headphones (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log) : http://paste.ubuntu.com/7131713/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1257956/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp