[audacity4blind] Re: Audacity crashes my soundcard
- From: Gale Andrews <gale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From Thomas Byskov Dalgaard <tbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:26:24 +0100
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Audacity crashes my soundcard
> Just thought I would share this here before trying to making a bug rapport:
> I have connected a Bose Companion 5 USB 2.0-speakers to my mac.
> Every time I select them as the output for Audacity, it crashes the
> system and I have to restart the computer.
So this is nothing directly to do with Audacity because Audacity
doesn't have kernel permissions to crash computers.
You can search Google to find a number of reports of these speakers
causing crashes or freezes on Mac when used in other audio
applications:
http://tinyurl.com/ndqwxvv .
This thread seems relevant:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1674540 .
In that thread it is reported that Apple support think these
speakers may not be compatible with some later Macs.
One solution may be to connect the speakers to an empty USB port
and not to a USB hub.
> So I have to make a workaround by setting the output from Audacity to a
> sound-extension named Soundflower that is used on Mac-computers. Then
> this has to be routed to the BOSE-speakers via a program named Line in.
> That works okay, but I wish it could be changed, so it wouldn't be necessary
> to go through all of this just for using Audacity on the Mac with these
> speakers.
> I'm using Audacity 2.5 when I tested this.
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Please note there is no 2.5 version of Audacity supplied by us,
but 2.0.5 is available from:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac .
To discuss the issue, I suggest:
https://discussions.apple.com/
and to report it:
http://www.apple.com/support/osx/contact/ .
I would give Apple the Audacity crash report, and you can send a
copy of the report to me too. To find the report, open Finder, then
choose Go > Go to Folder and type:
~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ .
If you are on OS X 10.4 or 10.5, the report is at:
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ .
You will need to tell Apple your version of OS X and the type of
Mac you have.
Gale
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