Steve wrote by email: An alternative workaround for bug 276 appears to be to set the output device to "dmix". I've been testing this for the past couple of days, and no freezes when using dmix.
The advantage of dmix over "hw:" is that the vast majority of sound cards do not have hardware mixing, so when the "hw:" device is used, only one application can use it at a time. On the other hand, dmix is a plug-in for ALSA that provides mixing, so multiple applications can use the sound card simultaneously. The downside of dmix compared to the "hw:" device is that not all distros install it by default (though I think that most do). The downside of dmix compared to PulseAudio is that it does not support recording what is playing on the computer. PulseAudio would be the best device to use if it were not for bug 276 (and it is the default for most modern Linux desktops). Do we want to document this somewhere? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1530365 Title: Audacity plays too fast and crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/audacity/+bug/1530365/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
