Hi everyone! Fedora 8, 7 and 6 still contain Audacity 1.3.2-beta. There have been two new beta releases since then. Sooner or later somebody surely will open a ticket and use reproachful words when requesting an upgrade to 1.3.4-beta, just because it's newer. So, here's some sort of status update and the opportunity for the community to help with evaluating that latest beta release. We, the packagers, appreciate all forms of success and failure reports as well as feedback sent to the Audacity developers upstream. Fedora 8 binaries of Audacity 1.3.4-beta for i386 and x86_64 can be found here: http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/audacity/ They are not signed, but the directory contains a SHA1SUMs file signed with my key. The source of these packages can be found in Fedora Package CVS, of course, albeit in a separate devel branch. A README file in the rpms/audacity directory contains a few notes about that branch: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/audacity/README?rev=1.7&view=markup The packages were built with wxGTK 2.8.4 as included with Fedora 8 and no longer with wxGTK 2.6.x. This may result in changes in the GUI. The packages are NOT built with JACK support, because the PortAudio v19 audio I/O driver system in Audacity 1.3.4-beta starts the JACK daemon during initialisation and blocks the ALSA and OSS drivers from working correctly. There are many errors printed to a terminal. When built without JACK support, at least one can evaluate the ALSA support (with or without running Pulse Audio). Further, as of Audacity 1.3.3-beta, the heavily changed PA v19 driver system determines inappropriate sample rates, which are rejected by ALSA, leading to an error dialog until the user chooses a compatible project rate out of many incompatible ones. This is reason enough to assume that it breaks in similar ways for other users with different audio hardware. Anyway, I'm interested in success and problem reports, and I'm even more interested in anybody's attempts at reporting problems to the upstream developers.
