On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:39:12 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:04 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:01:56 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > > > I've noted that while using Audacity to record from my USB phonograph > > > the speed of the audio that is recorded speeds up in frequency. This > > > seems to coincide with playback from another audio device, either Amarok > > > playing a stream or Pidgin message notifications. > > > > Is this reproducible with a newer Audacity than in Fedora? > > e.g. http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/audacity/ > > > Unfortunately it is. > > However, I do like the improvements in this version of Audacity. > > My testing scenario is: > > Run pidgin, run audacity, record something with audacity. No audio from > Pidgin. Sometimes audio card locks up and plays garbage audio requiring > a reboot to clear. "garbage audio requiring a reboot" sounds like a problem at the level of the ALSA driver. Audacity uses ALSA natively and exclusively, not via a PulseAudio interface.