Help with Audacity on Kubuntu 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Fraser wrote:

> On Friday 19 September 2008 03:58:43 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.

OSS?  That's been deprecated for a long time.

>> 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?
> 
> Have you tried using the USB connection? I've got an ion USB Turntable and
> all I had to do was select the correct input in Audacity and click on the
> record button.

For which you'd actually _need_ a device that outputs to USB. 
-- 
derek