When I try to play 10 seconds of audio in Audacity, it plays a bunch of noise for 1.5 seconds and then stops.
I love how you have to left-click on the PulseAudio control to get the menu to display, while every other icon in the universe uses the right-click. Oh wait, no; I hate that.
In Sound Preferences, if you turn the volume down to the bottom, it mutes automatically. Ok. OS X does this, too.
But then if you drag the volume slider back up again… it stays muted.
>:0
I can’t even play a .wav file in Audacity anymore without it skipping constantly, on a 2 GHz machine with 2 GiB of memory. Works fine in Windows. I find it very hard to believe that anyone has ever used Ubuntu to produce music.
When you switch the “fallback” from one audio output device to another, and then push the hardware volume buttons, it adjusts the new default device’s volume, as it should.
Instead of adjusting relative to the new device’s current volume, though, it starts adjusting at the old device’s previous volume, resulting in a sudden, deafening increase if the previous device was at full volume.
Thanks, guys.
Apparently PulseAudio mixer cannot control the entire volume range of my USB audio interface. alsamixer can, but PulseAudio cannot.
Of course, after increasing the volume with alsamixer and then closing the entire Terminal, my CPU usage starts maxing out. The culprit? alsamixer.
If you set a USB audio device as the default in OS X, unplug it, and replug it, it will become the default again.
If you set a USB audio device as the default (the “fallback”) in Ubuntu, unplug it, and replug it, your settings have been forgotten.
“Set as fallback”? Is that supposed to mean something like “Set as default”?
Oh, that’s exactly what it means?
I see.
So if Pd is running, Nautilus and Totem refuse to play any sound, but if Totem is playing sound, Pd refuses to play sound. Also, running Pd apparently causes Firefox to lock up.
Neither produces any error messages or explanation, of course.
Trying to run it through padsp is even better, with glitches and stuttering galore.
I thought PulseAudio was supposed to fix Linux sound, not make it worse.
Since Jaunty, the OSD volume control with multimedia keys randomly stops working. Right now, for instance, when I push the keys, the OSD pops up, but it just shows the “Mute” display no matter what I’m pushing, and the sliders don’t move. It’s not in mute, though. I’m sick of all these PulseAudio bugs.
