How to get audacity to recognize audio input without suspending pulseaudio?

I'm facing the issue that.. $ audacity ..starts audacity, but with missing inputs. $ pasuspender -- audacity ..starts audacity with all my inputs restored, so I can record from line-in, but then I cannot listen to music while doing so and there's some other strange behavior when trying to playback what I recorded. In some parts the audio gets extremely loud and then back to normal. So it's not even a viable workaround. All of this worked without problems on the same hardware before I upgrade from Linux Mint 19 to Linux Mint 20 Audacity v2.3.3 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Linuxmint Description: Linux Mint 20.3 Release: 20.3 Codename: una $ cat /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Focal Fossa"