Preventing Audacity from crashing when using PulseAudio
July 03, 2015 [Linux, Tech]I found that Audacity would crash whenever the Playback Device in the Devices section of Preferences was set to "pulse" or "default".
This can be fixed by launching Audacity like this:
Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=100 audacity
I fixed it "permanently" by modifying my Audacity launcher file, which is in /usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop.
I changed the line starting "Exec=" to:
Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=100 audacity %F
More info is on the Audacity forum.