Re: [Gwc-general] Odd error (only every other time I playback) using gwc with pulseaudio on ubuntu 12.10

[Chris G. <cl...@is...>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:04:58AM -0500, John Cirillo wrote:
> I seem to remember this happened a few years ago and in my 
> case was caused by the KDE
> notification timeout defaulting to something too long, like 
> 5 seconds or so.
> Because of that, the audio system really was temporarily 
> busy, but for no useful reason.
> After I changed the KDE event notification timeout to 1 
> second, all was well from then on.
> Something to check.  Not sure if other window managers have 
> something similar.
> 
I don't run KDE but I do have a KDE application (k3b) so it *might* be
the KDE event notification.  Do you know where I might be able to see
and/or change the KDE event notification timeout without the KDE GUI
running?

> On 1/24/2013 8:59 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have just installed Gnome Wave Cleaner version 0.21-17 on my xubuntu
> > 12.10 system, it works very well for me but there is one odd little
> > bug I would like to clear up.
> >
> > When I use the icons to start and stop playing a section of a recording
> > they work one time and then fail with two pop-up errors:-
> >
> >      Warning
> >      audio_device_open: pa_simple_new
> >
> > then
> >
> >      Warning
> >      Failed to open output device default:, check settings->miscellaneous
> >      for device information
> >
> >
> > If I click OK on both of these then the next time I click the Play icon
> > it plays OK.
> >
> > I have tried changing the device in settings->miscellaneous from
> > /dev/dsp to default: but it seems to have made no difference.
> >
> > While I'm about it what's the correct device to use when using gwc with
> > pulseaudio, I couldn't find any information on this.
> >

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Chris Green