Audacity Tips


Audacity Sound Card Issue "Error while opening sound device" message. Or Audacity plays a split second, freezes, and refuses to respond.
  1. ps -e|grep jackd
  2. check the process id (it's the first number on the line for example 9466)
  3. sudo kill 9466
Audacity hang/stuck with dialog: "Inspecting project file data" Open your audacity file (someproject.aup) with a text editor. Find the "h" setting and change it to zero. Example file below:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?> <!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//audacityproject-1.3.0//DTD//EN" "http://audacity.sourceforge.net/xml/audacityproject-1.3.0.dtd" > <project xmlns="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/xml/" projname="side1_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="1.3.4-beta" sel0="0.0000000000" sel1="0.0000000000" vpos="0" h="221.9711564626" zoom="86.1328125000" rate="44100"> < tags >