Audacity workaround

I found a workaround for Audacity to allow me to use it. The problem was that once started, it would not play back (or presumably record) audio. It would give errors such as

Expression ‘ret’ failed in ’src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 1034
Expression ‘AlsaOpen( hostApi, parameters, streamDir, &pcm )’ failed in ’src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c’, line: 1066

I tried every combination of input and output devices available, and none worked. Hitting google, I found that killing jackd was the workaround, because jack and audacity apparently don’t play together nicely. This is on a Debian/sid system with audacity 1.3.4-1.2, in case anyone is having similar problems.

I have the theme completed, and will probably start recording in the next day or two. I had hoped to have the first episode out by the end of March, but now it looks like the first week or so of April. I have a lot on my plate right now, including a job change.