I also have experienced this problem with Audacity, in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu Studio 13.10, and in Fedora 20 which I'm running now.
@Felipe Castillo (fcastillo.ec) This worked for me too! Thank you and Nicolay_G! I ran: sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=.*/Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity %U/' /usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246092 Title: Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade: audacity sound is trashed, program highly unstable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/1246092/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs