You’ll experience horrible audio latency at best and at worst, it probably won’t even connect to your audio interface. The major problem with Chromebooks is the lack of drivers/support for these high-demanding audio applications. It may be possible to install Audacity/Reaper on Chromebook, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get results. Driven by his passion for sound for picture, Stefan founded Decibel Peak, a platform designed to empower and support emerging sound professionals while contributing to the growth of the industry. Today, Stefan utilizes his extensive expertise to record production sound and lead the audio post-production process for a variety of projects in the TV, Film, and New Media industry.

His journey into sound production began at the young age of 16, where he initially produced music that went on to feature on local television. I've tried a number of ideas without success, tried compiling audacity from source, tried installing an older version (2.0.0-1), tried manually installing the libmad0 package suggested in the comment above, and I still get the same behaviour.Stefan is a highly proficient sound professional who specializes in sound for picture.

Jack server is not running or cannot be started I get the following error appear on the terminal screen for several seconds before it reboots:ĪLSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ĪLSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ĪLSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ĪLSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957: (snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback streamĪLSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slaveĬannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Using crouton to run Ubuntu, I have installed the xfce target for quantal (I tried a number of other targets and releases, but am using this one on the advice in this thread) I'm running on a Samsung ARM Chromebook (Model XE303C12-A01US, brand new as of two weeks ago). I have also been having my Chromebook reboot when I start Audacity.

Audacity on chromebook