Created attachment 444212 [details] Output of /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh (as root) This *might* be a PortAudio bug, but I'm not entirely certain as I don't know of any simple way to list devices with PortAudio. (Relevant versions of software are listed at the bottom of this bug description.) In Audacity, when I open up the recording devices list, I would normally expect to see a fairly short list. However, what I actually see is that each of the choices I would normally have on the list is duplicated six times, with the following after each: > Front Mic:0 > Rear Mic:0 > Line:0 > Front Mic:1 > Rear Mic:1 > Line:1 I've uploaded a screenshot showing this at https://i.imgur.com/JZ39CsT.png . In this screenshot I've opened up the recording devices list as if I was going to select one. Notice that it extends to *everything*, including the loopback devices offered by the snd-aloop kernel module, which should not have these inputs. In this configuration, my regular card (an onboard Realtek ALC1150) is ALSA card 0, as seen in my /proc/asound/cards: > 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH > HDA Intel PCH at 0xfa230000 irq 43 > 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia > HDA NVidia at 0xfa080000 irq 42 > 2 [UX16 ]: USB-Audio - UX16 > Yamaha UX16 at usb-0000:00:14.0-13, full speed > 3 [Loopback ]: Loopback - Loopback > Loopback 1 I've been trying to track down this bug and I think I finally worked out what's happening - for whatever reason, Audacity (or PortAudio, or *something*) is duplicating the inputs found on card 0 to every other card. (Card 0 does indeed have Front Mic, Rear Mic and Line inputs.) If I rejig the module loading so that my Loopback 'card' appears in slot, so that my /proc/asound/cards looks like this: > 0 [Loopback ]: Loopback - Loopback > Loopback 1 > 1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH > HDA Intel PCH at 0xfa230000 irq 42 > 2 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia > HDA NVidia at 0xfa080000 irq 43 > 3 [UX16 ]: USB-Audio - UX16 > Yamaha UX16 at usb-0000:00:14.0-13, full speed then the problem no longer appears, as can be seen in this screenshot with a much smaller list: https://i.imgur.com/WVpkcNz.png . (I'm not entirely sure why 'surround21' suddenly appears in this screenshot when it wasn't in the first; that might be another bug, perhaps related to this one somehow.) In both of these configurations, I have no ~/.asoundrc file. (I normally do, but I renamed it away for this bug so that it couldn't affect the results.) Creating a new ~/.asoundrc file to define a new default PCM using 'pcm.!default' does not change anything, so it definitely appears to be related to the inputs on card 0. I've uploaded as an attachment the alsa-info.txt file generated by running /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh (from media-sound/alsa-utils) when the ALC1150 is in card 0's position (at which point the bug is observable in Audacity). If I can help at all in any other way, please let me know! Relevant software versions installed: * media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.29 (no extra USE flags) * media-libs/portaudio-19_pre20140130 (USE flags: alsa cxx) * media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.29 (no extra USE flags) * media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.29 - (USE flags: gtk alsa_cards_emu10k1x) (I'm not entirely sure why alsa_cards_emu10k1x is enabled; I didn't add it) * media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.29 (USE flags: doc libsamplerate ncurses nls) * media-sound/audacity-2.0.5 (USE flags: alsa flac id3tag ladspa libsamplerate libsoxr mp3 sbsms twolame vamp vorbis) emerge --info: Portage 2.2.28 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.7.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-5820K_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 32859668 total, 25904120 free KiB Swap: 8191996 total, 8191996 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:30:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42-r1 ld 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Created attachment 444214 [details] Screenshot of Audacity's recording devices list with PCH as card 0
Created attachment 444216 [details] Screenshot of Audacity's recording devices list with Loopback as card 0
Oh, I forgot to mention - note too that in the 'fixed' screenshot with Loopback as card 0, the "Front Mic", "Rear Mic" and "Line" inputs don't show up even when they should on the ALC1150 devices, so it's easy to see that card 0's inputs are just being copied.
I've been attempting to debug this and find out exactly where things are going wrong. Unfortunately, I've hit the limit of my knowledge. I've managed to find out that when Audacity initialises its Device Manager (DeviceManager.cpp), it uses an interesting method of finding the sources for input devices - it temporarily opens a stream to each device, and then queries PortMixer (part of PortAudio AFAIK, though for some reason it uses included source code from Audacity's tarball) by calling Px_OpenMixer on the stream and using the resulting Px object. It seems that this is where the problem is occurring. On ALSA (OpenMixer_Linux_ALSA(), lib-src/portmixer/src/px_linux_alsa.c), the Px object is initialised and PaAlsa_GetStreamInputCard is called in order to get the card number from the previously-opened stream. However, this appears to always be returning 0 (at least, it is on my system), which of course means that the sources Audacity eventually gets are from the mixers on card 0. I believe that the streams themselves are constructed properly - they certainly seem to have the right parameters in the source code, but I've not yet broken out the debugger so I can break and check the various /proc files to make sure that the right devices are being opened. That's something I'll try next time I get some time to work on this, though for now I'm shattered. I hope this helps a bit in trying to find the issue. Unfortunately I don't know PortAudio's internals well enough to really go deeper then PaAlsa_GetStreamInputCard, but if anybody needs me to give any more data or to patch some code, please let me know.
(To be clear, when I say that PaAlsa_GetStreamInputCard is always "returning 0", I mean that it's always setting the 'card' variable to 0.)
I just tested media-sound/audacity-2.1.3 (marked unstable at the moment), and this bug appears to still be present. I haven't been able to look into this bug any further since the last time I updated; I apologise!
(In reply to Sophie Hamilton from comment #6) > I just tested media-sound/audacity-2.1.3 (marked unstable at the moment), > and this bug appears to still be present. > > I haven't been able to look into this bug any further since the last time I > updated; I apologise! Can you please report it to upstream then? Thanks
please test it with 2.4.2-r1 and report back
no reports, so closing.
Sorry, I intended to reply when I had installed it but I haven't had the time to update yet. I'll update when I can and get back to you.
Sorry for the delay. I've finally been able to test this. Unfortunately, =media-sound/audacity-2.4.2-r1 still exhibits the issue as documented. (I'm also experiencing a weird bug where the X mouse cursor and the where Audacity thinks the mouse cursor is do not agree and are offset from each other, which is partly why this bug took so long to reopen, but that's a story for another bug - possibly #736192, but I don't know.) I'm sorry to have to reopen this, especially after such a long time, and I'm especially sorry because I never reported this upstream as suggested; IIRC I was having trouble finding where I needed to do so, and I'm sorry I never said this. I can see now from https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs that the forum is the place to report bugs so I'll try giving that a go if it's still desired. Once again, I'm so sorry.
Sophie, thank you for the update :-)
please paste the link to your upstream ticket here.
