Re: [Bulk] Re: Audacity on Ubuntu 14.04 is REALLY unstable

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Well, I've heard that Gnome 3's default configuration makes it a major resource hog - particularly for memory. Like KDE4. I avoid Gnome 3. Both it and KDE4 launch a bunch of system services that I think can really impact RT use.

Sorry, I don't know anything about how Fedora might be configured differently from Debian.

On 08/18/2014 12:12 PM, Sam Tuke wrote:
For what its worth, audacity is unstable on Fedora with Gnome 3 as well.
Routine crashes and corrupted recovery files make it a real headache to
use. Maybe its the versions of the packages we're using?

Sam.

On 18 August 2014 20:07:49 CEST, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    On 08/18/2014 04:45 AM, James Stone wrote:

        On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Fons Adriaensen

            On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher
            wrote:

                You can also try jack. Audacity uses jack in a very
                weird way, as soon
                as you roll audacity autoconnects to the first outputs
                it finds and
                disconnects once you stop rolling,


            That's only one of the many apps that claim to support Jack but
            get it completely wrong. In many cases, but not always,
            portaudio
            is to blame.

        Perso nally I think the way Audacity handles audio on linux is
        very bad
        - doesn't manage to do Alsa, Jack or Pulseaudio right as far as
        I can
        see (if I don't run jack it endlessly changes the sample rate on my
        card - making lots of clicks and pops as it takes over 1 minute to
        start up!). I tried discussing problems on their forums but to no
        avail.


    I use Audacity on 2 different machines, both 64-bit Debian Sid, with a
    UCA-202 USB sound card on the laptop and the now-working-again (YAY!)
    Audiophile on the desktop. With or without JACK, Audacity never changes
    the sample rate as you mention above. Doesn't take a minute to start up,
    either.

    I think there's some more fundamental problem with your system setup
    than Audacity. Maybe Audacity's difficulties handling audio just make it
    more sensitive to the fundamental problem than other apps.


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