Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 147936
Audacity does not support record-only devices (patch included)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041228 Firefox/1.0 Fedora/1.0-8 Description of problem: Audacity does not support record-only sound devices, due to an oversight in the detection routines. The attached patch fixes this. It does not affect the successful detection code path, but modifies the failure path to test for record-only devices. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect record only sound card 2. try to select sound card in audacity 3. Actual Results: Sound card is not available for selection Expected Results: Sound card available as recording device Additional info:
Created attachment 111037 [details] Readonly patch
When submitting patches like this, please always mention whether you are in contact with the upstream developers about this. http://audacity.sf.net
For the record: I am not in contact with upstream about this. Upsteam (well, portaudio19, which is in 1.2.3 also but not used in this build) does not have this specific problem (but lots of others).
Priority set to high since patch is included.
Does 1.3.0 (beta) still have this problem? Just wondering, since it's just been released, and is (at last!) wxGTK 2.6 and gtk2 compatible, so it's the path Extras will en up taking some day anyway.
What portaudio version does it use?
By default, still v18, and v19 optional. So if the problem is in the v18, and if it's still not fixed in this 1.3.0 (beta), you might want to contact upstream to get a patch in.
Has the bug been fixed in 1.2.5?
FC3 and FC4 have now been EOL'd. Please check the ticket against a current Fedora release, and either adjust the release number, or close it if appropriate. Thanks. Your friendly BZ janitor :-)
The reporter should try again with audacity 1.3.2. It currently uses portaudio v19 and supports ALSA.