audacity and sound device

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: audacity and sound device
started by: Giftmischer

Posted by Giftmischer on July 13 2006,19:32

hi,

I have added the audacity.uci extension to the "My DSL" panel.

But even when I start audacity, there appears an error which tells me that the program cannot found a sound device and that I should check my sample settings.

So audacity doesn't record and play any sound file.

I have searched all the sub forums for users with the same problems like me, but there weren't any posts which could help me.

I'm using the latest stable dsl version as an hd install on a 1.3 Ghz amd duron with 512 mB ram. Sound chip (win named it C-Media) on elitegroup K7S5A. Internet access is only possible with windows, because I have only an internal modem.

Please help me... Or give me some advice, please. :;):

Greetings,
Giftmischer

Posted by mikshaw on July 13 2006,21:52

Do you have sound working on this system? If not, audacity will not work.

If you have sound working, you'll probably need to change the device used in audacity (Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O)

Posted by Giftmischer on July 14 2006,08:54

The system sound works, especially Xmms. The only thing which doesn't work is audacity.

audacity > Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O:
I can choose only one device, something like /dev/sp... (sorry, but I write this thread on windows)
Nothing else.

Posted by mikshaw on July 14 2006,13:22

One thing I'd try is to look in Xmms preferences to see what device it is using. That should be shown when you press the Output Plugin's "Configure" button on the Audio I/O tab.

If it's listed as /dev/dsp, same as audacity, then there is something messed up other than the chosen device. I can't think what that would be at the moment.

Posted by Giftmischer on July 14 2006,18:13

This might be one reason. I'll check that next time.

Thanks milkshaw, you're one of the brains at this board.

Posted by Giftmischer on July 15 2006,08:33

I have fix it! It was a problem with the sample rate.

I used the audacity-1.2.2.tar.gz version.

But now there's another problem:

I have enabled the "play tracks while recording" (or sth like this) and there appears no sound while recording of a new track (while the other track is playing, but silence).

Posted by piccolo on July 15 2006,09:22

Known bug in Audacity:
Recording in full duplex (playing existing tracks while recording) on some systems causes mono recordings to sound distorted or low-pitched. To work around this problem, set Audacity to record in stereo, so:
File > Preferences > Audio I/O > Channels > Stereo (2)

Posted by Giftmischer on July 15 2006,10:38

I record with 2 channels. (sry, I forgot to mention that)
But there is no sound from the played track.

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Advice to my older audacity problem:
< http://audacityteam.org/wiki...._Device >

Posted by Giftmischer on July 16 2006,20:18

I guess it's the OSS sound driver system.
But when I'm using the ALSA sound driver, they're appearing some I/O errors.
(topic: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=14433 >)

How can I "tune" the OSS sound driver?