Bug 275490

Summary:	media-sound/audacity: Pulseaudio support for Audacity-1.3.7
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Reto Gantenbein (ganto) <reto.gantenbein>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Professional Audio Applications Maintainers <proaudio>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor	CC:	c.a.strahl
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://telperion.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/audacity-e-pulseaudio-gentoo-x86/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Ebuild audacity-1.3.7-r1 respecting the Pulseaudio patch Adds Pulseaudio support to Audacity Add 'pulseaudio' USE flag and correspondingly depend on it/apply patch

Description Reto Gantenbein (ganto) 2009-06-26 14:29:47 UTC

Audacity lacks of native support for Pulseaudio. However there is a patch by Ubuntu which adds Pulseaudio support for input and output devices. 

Add this patch to the Audacity ebuild

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Modern desktop with Pulseaudio sound framework (e.g. Gnome 2.26)
2. Start Audacity, Preferences -> Audio I/O
3. No choice for Pulseaudio backend support

Actual Results:  
Only ALSA can be choosen for audio backend. There exist several workarounds (also see http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#Audacity)

Expected Results:  
If there is already a native pulseaudio patch, use it in Gentoo too!

Comment 1 Reto Gantenbein (ganto) 2009-06-26 14:31:07 UTC

Created attachment 195818 [details]
Ebuild audacity-1.3.7-r1 respecting the Pulseaudio patch

Comment 2 Reto Gantenbein (ganto) 2009-06-26 14:32:30 UTC

Created attachment 195819 [details, diff]
Adds Pulseaudio support to Audacity

Taken from Ubuntu repository (audacity_1.3.7-3.diff.gz)

Comment 3 Reto Gantenbein (ganto) 2009-06-27 19:56:10 UTC

Created attachment 195918 [details]
Add 'pulseaudio' USE flag and correspondingly depend on it/apply patch

Comment 4 Christian Strahl 2009-07-29 08:47:10 UTC

30 days are over. could this patch integrated in the official ebuild now?

Comment 5 Özgür ERİŞEN 2009-09-10 11:11:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> 30 days are over. could this patch integrated in the official ebuild now?
> 

Actually I am using Audacity 1.3.8 and I can run audacity with pulse. 
First you need to install alsa-plugins with pulseaudio support than arrange your .asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf according to http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
Then select pulse from the device list. It will play well (some times it aborts playing but I usually listen music while editing)

Comment 6 Christian Strahl 2009-09-10 12:02:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Actually I am using Audacity 1.3.8 and I can run audacity with pulse. 
> First you need to install alsa-plugins with pulseaudio support than arrange
> your .asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf according to
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
> Then select pulse from the device list. It will play well (some times it aborts
> playing but I usually listen music while editing)

i'm using audacity in the exact same manner.
But if there is a well tested patch for native pulseaudio support, it should be integrated in the official ebuild.

btw. Audacity website:
> 01 September 2009: Audacity 1.3.9 released

Comment 7 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2009-12-05 09:29:12 UTC

if there is something to be done for better pulseaudio support, please send patches upstream.