I’m using Audacity for different audio cutting tasks on Debian Testing with PulseAudio. Some month ago everything worked perfectly. Several month before that it did not work at all.

Currently when I play an audio snippet, it’s playing incredibly fast and Audacity crashes. The current solution seems to be this:

env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity

Use this command to launch Audacity from your terminal and it will work.

This solution is actually all over the internet, but I had a hard time finding it. So this might help the random Google user.