I've never heard of anyone using Audacity to play audio. No doubt there
is a way to do that, but that isn't its function. It's an audio editor,
not an audio player. I'm surprised it can even play audio streams as
I've only ever used it to edit audio files.

Well you might need to play back your audio that you edited to check if you got the editing right.

Nevertheless, a feature not working is a bug. Saying that its not used very often is not a very compelling excuse. 

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 9:45 PM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 19:16 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> On 5/24/20 11:38 PM, stan via users wrote:
> > Did you try changing the playback device as the message suggests?  You
> > need to select the analog output device in order to play audio.
>
> Ok I spoke too soon and there is definitely is a problem and the problem
> is a really weird one.
>
>
> Lets say that you are playing a YouTube video on Firefox, and you pause
> the Youtube video in the browser and minimize it.
>
> You now start Audacity and you will find that you can't play any audio
> on Audacity until Firefox is closed. 'sysdefault' and 'default' will
> have disappeared from Audacity.
>
> What the kind of weird error is this ? I can't use Firefox and Audacity
> at the same time ?
>
> Is this a limitation of the Linux Sound subsystem ALSA ?
>
> Does this happen for anyone else ?

I've never heard of anyone using Audacity to play audio. No doubt there
is a way to do that, but that isn't its function. It's an audio editor,
not an audio player. I'm surprised it can even play audio streams as
I've only ever used it to edit audio files.

poc
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Sreyan Chakravarty