cant record or playback in audacity

[frieze06]

i am using ubuntu and as soon as i open up audacity it says somthing about an error initializing the audio i/o.. can someone help me with this.. i have seen a few other people say the same thing.. but no one ever answered

[frieze06]

no one knows anything?

[svenkatesan]

Please don't use the software from Application---sound & video---audacity.
Just type "audacity" from command line.
Since I am using Fedora 3,I can't give suggestion on your distro.
Otherway around--right click desktop--add a launcher--give a name--on command--browse and point it to /usr/bin/audacity.Select suitable icon.
Thats all.
U can operate from that short cut too.
Enjoy it.

[frieze06]

i tried that.. it still doesn't work.. and i really would like to get it workin since i love recording music

[gearhead1972]

Hello, First post and new to linux. I have the same problem, could anyone shed some light?
Thanks

[TitaniumTaz]

I don't know if this is going to help you or not, but I just went thru the same thing tonite when I installed Kanotix to my HDD. I went to Audacity's preferences and found that under audio I/O the channels setting was on 1-MONO and I set it to 2-STEREO and it started working. Honestly not sure thats what did it but not gonna knock it while it's working. Good Luck
TitaniumTaz

[Chris H]

If you want to use the soundcard with audacity you need to shut the sound server down.

It's somewhere on the top toolbar, preferences / sound or summat like that. You get a selection of sound server on and sound for events. Just uncheck the sound server box. Can't be more specific about the location as I don't use Gnome.

A more clever method would be to install JACK and pipe audacity through that but that's probably more hassle than it's worth.

HTH

[ratfaust]

I'm running Agnula Debian and I've found that Audacity won't run while using JACK as a server. If this is the case for you, you may have to stop JACK before running Audacity.