How to make Audacity work with ALSA

If you want to work with the audio editing software Audacity, and you get an error starting Audacity, you can try the following:

start audacity with the following command:

>aoss audacity

This will start audacity with the alsa osscompatibility layer.

or

try selecting in Preferences ALSA Default as the sound device

How to make MP3 support working

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so