having trouble with Alsa

[Basil Chupin]

On 19/01/12 03:51, Scott Berry wrote:
> Sorry my message wasn't there I thought the whole message went.  I 
> actually did erase the Audacity-data folder and restarted Alsa with 
> the same results as my previous message which was with an error that 
> basically said it could not play the file to please check the ound 
> device or the bit rate of the file and everything else with sound 
> works fine.

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> On 01/17/2012 10:10 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 01/17/2012 06:08 PM, Scott Berry wrote:
>>> Yes I sure did.
>> Did what?
>>
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>> Is the error message:
>> "Error while opening sound device Please check the output device
>> settings and the project sample rate.  OK"
>>
>> If so, this may help:
>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting>
>> and will provide others on this list with additional details regarding
>> your problem.
>>
>>> On 01/16/2012 01:16 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>>> On 01/15/2012 07:43 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Scott Berry<scottbb1973 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>      i am having trouble when importing files in to Audacity.  I am
>>>>>> unable to
>>>>>> play them and Audacity shows the following message.  I update Alsa
>>>>>> to the
>>>>>> lastest version for 10.04.  Here is the message i have recieved from
>>>>>> audacity.  I have already taken this to the Audacity list with no
>>>>>> success so
>>>>>> I am hoping some one here can help me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error while opening sound device Please check the output device
>>>>>> settings and
>>>>>> the project sample rate.  OK
>>>>>> What do I need to do to make Audacity work again?
>>>>> Did you try erasing ~/.audacity-data folder, and then run the
>>>>> application?
Sorry my message wasn't there I thought the whole message went.  I 
actually did erase the Audacity-data folder and restarted Alsa with the 
same results as my previous message which was with an error that 
basically said it could not play the file to please check the ound 
device or the bit rate of the file and everything else with sound works 
fine.



If I remember correctly what that error message from Audacity is telling 
you is that it cannot recognise the file format of the file you are 
trying to work on; or you are trying to make it open a file from some 
location which does not exist.

BC