Hi Bill! Anno domini 2025 Thu, 6 Mar 02:01:16 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > Okay, so here's another off-topic conumdrum for the more technically-inclined > musicians and sound people out there. > > I found a Logitech USB microphone at a second-hand shop for cheap ($5), and > want to get it working with my machine, so that I can do quick and dirty > recordings of demos or just for my own practice. > > My machine does recognize the microphone, no problem. (I always seem to have > good luck with Logitech products.) I used alsamixer, hit the F6 key, chose > Logitech USB microphone, and there it is. > > I did not have Audacity installed, though I have used it a lot, when I have a > much more complete mixing setup, sometimes with multiple instruments and > microphones attached. Again, no problem. I've made many recordings using > Audacity with different guitars and microphones. > > Now, however, while my machine recognizes the microphone, Audacity will not > start up at all. I installed it from the repositories, everything seems > right. When I run F2 and enter audacity, the logo shows up. But when I check > top, it never appears at all, as if something is blocking Audacity from > starting up. I checked what I could of config files, etc., but nothing seems > amiss. > > I do have a backup of my system, including the folders for my previous working > version of Audacity, so it's possible that I could solve my problem by just > copying the old folder into my new folder, and overwrite everything so that > my settings ought to be forced. But I'm wondering if anybody else might have > a clue what's going on, before I go rogue and do something stupid. > > Also, over the past couple years I've been reading various complaints about > the new "privacy" policies of Audacity: that it now snoops on users, even > when it's not running, if it's installed on a system. I would like to find a > better fork that respects our privacy, but so far I have found nothing to > compare with it in GNU/Linux programs. > > Thanks for any help. You could start it with some deugger or trace tool like "strace $(which audacity)" and peek where it it hangs. Nik > > Bill > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
