[Sreyan Chakravarty sent the reply directly to me, and apparently not to the list, but I'm moving the discussion back to the list.] On Sun, 31 May 2020 20:24:12 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On 5/27/20 11:38 PM, George Avrunin wrote: > > I haven't used audacity in a long time, but on my Fedora 32, in Edit -> > > Preferences -> Devices, the HOST is set to ALSA and there doesn't seem to > > be a way to change it. But Playback Device and Recording Device both have > > a "pulse option". Have you tried those? > > > Well its interesting to say that. These are the playback options I have: > > Do you see any PulseAudio ? > > https://imgur.com/a/VPuJyHI On my main desktop machine (a Dell Precision T1700) I don't do very much with sound. In audacity, the Playback Device options I see (with no webcam or headphones plugged in) are several entries of the form "HDA NVidia: HDMI X (hdw:y,z)", for various values of X (0-5), y, and z; "pulse"; and "default". For Recording Device, I see "HDA Intel PCH: ALC3220 Analog (hw:0,0)"; "sysdefault"; "pulse"; and "default". > > > > > The Audacity tutorial says > > (https://ttmanual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_selecting_your_input.html) > > that "An audio host is an interface between Audacity and the sound card > > driver. ... In Linux there is often only one option: ALSA, other options > > could be OSS and/or Jack Audio Connection Kit (also known as "Jack" or > > "Jackd")." So HOST is not where you'd make any changes. > > > Thats interesting, if ALSA is the only option then where does PulseAudio > come in ? > My understanding is that pulseaudio is a sound server, which interacts with the applications and with the things that directly talk to the hardware. (See the comment in the text from the audacity tutorial above; it's not pulse that is the direct interface to the soundcard driver.) It seems that you have pulseaudio installed. Is it actually running? What does pavucontrol show? As I said, I haven't used audacity in a long time and on my system pulseaudio seems to be running and working just fine. But your configuration is clearly very different from mine and I don't know enough to help debug your configuration.
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