No sound in Audacity, but got sound everywhere else

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:14 -0800, Charles Kanavle wrote:
> At 31-03-09 01:40, you wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Charles Kanavle <charles at litek.com> wrote:
> > > My Dell E1705 runs Kubuntu 8.04 just fine... until I try to edit
> > > sound with Audacity. I come over from Adobe Audition, but have to
> > > keep returning to it because when I try to play the timeline on an
> > > audio track Audacity, I get the travelling cursor and visual
> > > indication of play mode, but no actual sound in the speaker. Other
> > > programs produce sound just fine during the same session.
> > > Has any one else had a similar probrem?
> > > Thanks all...
> > > Charles
> > >
> >
> >Is the sound settings in Audacity right for your hardware? ALSA
> >Default is probably the best choice for playback.
> >
> >/ Jonas
> 
> 
> The setup shows that, and a number of other ALSA etc., options, and I 
> have aimlessly and tiredly tried them all, and tried to match up the 
> sample rate also. I was just wondering if there are other options I 
> had missed.
> The sound had worked a while back, and perhaps a new download (like 
> JACK) or update hosed it.
> Charles

Sometimes Firefox will hog the audio device. Try closing it next time to
see if that helps.

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