[nzlug] Audio editor for ALSA

[Peter Butler]

>> Remember the fun I had finding audio editors for ALSA? I'm after an
>> editor to edit MP3's now. Tried Audacity first, using aoss to launch it.
>> Sadly, Audacity doesn't seem to recognise the /dev/dsp device provided
>> by aoss.  
>>     
> I don't have time to search for previous thread but why do you use AOSS
> for an app which supports ALSA? Isn't AOSS to allow OSS only apps to
> access ALSA devices? If I'm not missing something here Audacity should
> run on ALSA system without using AOSS.
>   
Audacity from the repositories works fine on Dapper using alsa here 
(including opening mp3 files).  You might try the alsa-oss compatibility 
wrapper, it's available in the Ubuntu repositories as "alsa-oss".  I 
haven't tried this in Dapper but it worked OK on breezy (I've built my 
own alsa libs on Dapper to support oddball hardware and I include oss 
compatibility when compiling).

Some more detail here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/sound/alsa-oss

Note that some OSS apps will want to control the soundcard completely 
when they are running, just kill any other apps that might be using the 
card and it should be sweet.

Cheers

Peter