How-to: Get Audacity working after a Hardy upgrade

April 28, 2008 at 7:02 am | Posted in tips and tricks, xubuntu | 16 Comments
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Xubuntu 8.04 comes shipped with PulseAudio, a new sound management system. For the most part, your commonly used programs should work with this new program. For some, however, Audacity may quit being able to play and record sound. (For those who don’t know, Audacity is a sound editor; which means not being able to play and record sound renders it pretty useless!)

This how-to is extremely easy and short, but it helps me work with one of my favourite programs. In short: uninstall jackd.

1) Go to Xfce Menu > Accessories > Terminal, and enter in the following:

sudo apt-get remove jackd

Reopen up Audacity. Hopefully, it should start working again as it should. If not, you may have to quit the jackd program. Go back to the terminal and enter the following:

killall jackd

Now Audacity should be working just as it did before. Good luck!

(Credit goes to http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4812244&postcount=5.)

The Heron is out

April 24, 2008 at 4:04 pm | Posted in xubuntu | 1 Comment

Xubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron was released today! You can view the release notes here. While I haven’t upgraded yet, this page shows that Xubuntu has received a lot of the same fixes as Ubuntu. Links to ISOs to download are available, but to save some wear and tear on the servers, it is strongly recommended that you use BitTorrent. My partner blog will tell you how. It’s very exciting indeed! Happy Xubuntuing.

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