Help with Audacity on Kubuntu 8.04

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:58 -0700, Rick Knight wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to record some vinyl using Audacity and having no success. I 
> have an Audio Technica USB turntable with line out. I have the line out 
> connected to the line in on my sound card. I can play the vinyl through 
> my PC speakers but I cannot get Audacity to record it. In Kmix I have 
> the record input set to line1 and line1 is not muted. In audacity I have 
> the record source set to OSS:/dev/dsp, same setting for playback device. 
> At one point I thought I had it working, but it turned out the mic input 
> was not muted and the mic was picking up the sound from the PC speakers 
> and recording that. When I muted the mic and made sure that the only 
> source was line1 and that it was not muted, I got no recording again. 
> Recording from mic seems to work while recording line1 does not. Can 
> anyone tell me how to get Audacity to work?

Maybe it has something to do with PulseAudio?? Is it installed?? I'm new
to kubuntu, but over at the Fedora side some of the users had to remove
PulseAudio when they had recording problems. Me, I've never used it.
Trouble shooting with a shotgun here, it may be a place to look though.
YMMV, Ric

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