# Zrythm automatically choosing JACK (resetting preferences)
**URL:** https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197
**Category:** GNU/Linux
**Created:** [November 12, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197 "2024-11-12T15:22:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@lenni.huopaniemi](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/lenni.huopaniemi)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197/1 "2024-11-12T15:22:59Z")
On my system for whatever reason JACK does not work. At this point I really don’t see the benefit myself as I just wanna make some electronic beats, nothing too fancy. Whenever I choose PulseAudio(rtaudio) (which does work well, whenever it decides to work), it prompts me to restart. When I restart, the audio device is JACK again, which fails to load as I don’t have uninstalled it due to it not working.
Here’s a video of it happening (no clue where to send these files, so landed on Drive :D)
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZOfwM-d2jj6BbkkXc9uvgPEiboaMuEJI/view?usp=drive\_link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZOfwM-d2jj6BbkkXc9uvgPEiboaMuEJI/view?usp=drive_link)
I’ll probably try to get jack working as I wanna try to actually use this software instead of waiting three months for a bug fix. But it’s quite annoying. If there is any need for further elaboration or testing or something I’ll gladly help, I quite love where this project is going, and I can see myself using for my musical projects it as soon as it’s stable.
In this post: [Pulseaudio doesn't work on Ubuntu 24.04?](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/pulseaudio-doesnt-work-on-ubuntu-24-04/161) the writer briefly says that
… which is probably the same issue as I’m facing.
---
### Author:  [@lenni.huopaniemi](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/lenni.huopaniemi)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197/2 "2024-11-12T15:26:36Z")
Quick extra info: it does work when I choose pulseaudio before I actually launch the Zrythm editor. It’s an annoying extra step though.
---
### Author:  [@Spice\_Stevenson](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/Spice_Stevenson)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197/3 "2025-10-08T06:12:25Z")
I’m having the same issue almost a year later! If this issue isn’t fixed, I won’t be able to use the DAW properly.
---
### Author:  [@alex](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/alex)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197/4 "2025-10-24T00:38:13Z")
Do you have better luck with [v2](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-v2-builds-thread/439/2)?
---
### Author:  [@ninja1234hghg](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/ninja1234hghg)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-automatically-choosing-jack-resetting-preferences/197/5 "2026-01-03T22:16:27Z")
I have the same problem as yours. The program even causes my PC to hang and editing notes causes it to crash. I wonder if my issue is caused by using the LSP Sampler Plug-in, because if that’s the case, I might go out and look for a better sampler. Anyhow, I’m back to Ardour.
Upon further inspection, KSystemlog shows that the only crash that got reported was caused by a segmentation fault in the CPU.