I have the exact same problem. I was not sure what it came from at the beginning but today it was clearly Audacity that stops my headphone port from working.
I was listening to music before through the same headphones, with different apps. As soon as I opened the same sound with Audacity, my headphone port stopped working whereas I can unplug them and use my laptop speakers. After that, even out of Audacity, I can not use my headphones with the apps that worked before then. I only hear little "breathing" sounds every time a sound/song is supposed to start, or when the sound/song is supposed to finish and the app "releases" the sound system. It takes several reboots before it eventually start working again, sometimes after a few days. I have no idea what happens but it is an extremely disrupting problem as I can not make any music without good quality headphones. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 64bits with Audacity 2.0.5 Please let me know if I can give you something else to help fix this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257956 Title: Headphones stopped working after use of Audacity. They are detected, but no sound is produced. Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm running 13.10 and the latest GNOME. I've just fresh installed everything and the problem has occured again the same way. I would like to be able to use audacity, but I suppose in the mean time I will just reinstall everything. I'm unsure of what outputs I should attach. Sorry I'm quite newbish. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1257956/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
