[ale] Secrets of Audacity!

[Geoffrey]

Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Uuh, amarok is fine, I use it too.  Audacity is good if you want to
> **edit** your sound.  Doing that without being able to play it is
> often problematic.

I have a weird problem.  I've recently listen to some sound bites from a 
website, downloaded some mp3s, but neither amarok or rythymbox will play 
them.  I'm sure it's a configuration issue, but can't for the life of me 
figure this one out.  Mandriva 2009.

> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>> On Tue February 9 2010, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>>> Since starting a music podcast ( http://eelfighter.podbean.com ) I
>>> have been playing with Audacity 1.3.9 a little bit.  But when I loaded
>>> a sound file into Audacity and tried to play it, nothing would happen
>>> -- I mean, like, the cursor wouldn't move, and no sound came out even
>>> though it went into play **mode** and the edit parts of the program
>>> were greyed out.  Google was not helpful.  Eventually I discovered
>>> that "software playthrough" under the Tracks menu was checked. When I
>>> unchecked it, everything worked correctly again.  Further, you can go
>>> into
>>> Edit->Preferences->Recording and make sure it's off by default.  Now I
>>> am a Much Happier Camper
>> I just looked, and I have 1.3.5. beta ( Debian Lenny). software playthrough
>> was unchecked, and I don't think I've ever run the program before.. Amarok is
>> my default player..
>>
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