[13:41] <jarlath> Does anyone have experience/solution with Audacity regularly crashing in 16.04 (Ubuntu desktop)?
[13:42] <cfhowlett> jarlath, quite common complaint actually
[13:42] <cfhowlett> backup early and often
[13:43] <jarlath> Ah, I didn't realise. It used to be rock solid for me in 14.04.
[13:44] <jarlath> So I thought maybe it was Compiz or something :)
[15:46] <jarlath>  Are there any alternatives for just cutting up audio files to remove small parts from a recording? It's crashing several times/hour.
[16:02] <OvenWerks> jarlath: MHWaveEdit?
[16:03] <OvenWerks> though that does expect jack to be running
[16:03] <OvenWerks> Ardour is probably a bit heavy for that too.
[16:04] <jarlath> OvenWerks: Great, that's new to me. Thank you. I do have qJackCtl so I can run it for that session. Ardour seems a little OTT from memory, but I do recall being very surprised the last time I did something like this in Ardour. Not as bad as I had expected either. I'll try your suggestion and go with Ardoir if it doesn't suit.
[17:38] <jarlath> Lovely, mhWaveEdit works with PulseAudio.
[18:03] <OvenWerks> jarlath: good to know.
[18:03]  * OvenWerks runs jackdbus by default.
[18:04] <jarlath> Ah, then you probably need it. I find when jack is running many programs can't produce audio (Firefox and Totem as examples).
[18:11] <OvenWerks> jarlath: I use pulse as a front end for jack. I remove all alsa and udev modules from pulse and use jack as the only audio device.
[18:12] <OvenWerks> I have been running this way for over two years now
[18:12] <OvenWerks> it is very stable even on my wifes computer that is generally used for just desktop
[18:12] <jarlath> Very nice. Is that with two seperate logins?
[18:32] <jarlath> When trying to save I get "Invalid sample format or number of channels for this file format". When I google the error I just get the source code on github :) I'm saving the same format as the source file, ogg.
[22:22] <jarlath> Anybody know how to solve that so I can save?