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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