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!
Created attachment 195818 [details] Ebuild audacity-1.3.7-r1 respecting the Pulseaudio patch
Created attachment 195819 [details, diff] Adds Pulseaudio support to Audacity Taken from Ubuntu repository (audacity_1.3.7-3.diff.gz)
Created attachment 195918 [details] Add 'pulseaudio' USE flag and correspondingly depend on it/apply patch
30 days are over. could this patch integrated in the official ebuild now?
(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)
(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
if there is something to be done for better pulseaudio support, please send patches upstream.
