Sound recording blues

[Johann Spies]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:50:58PM -0700, John Leonard wrote:
> I am having problems recording from my soundcard (eg
> internet radio) on Dapper. So far I have tried
> gnome-sound-recorder, arecord, audacity and Ardour GTK
> but I always get the same problem: silent recordings.
> My Alsa capture settings are on 70% so this should not
> be the problem. Ideally I would like to save to MP3 or
>  Ogg, but WAV would do. Any help would be much

Which soundcard do you have?  I have had a similar problem with an
nvidia -based system.  At the moment and after many hours I have an
OSS-based sound system working with nvidia's own driver and alsa not
working as it should.  At least I can play music and make recordings
using a microphone and programs like audacity and gnusound  - but no
arecord or aplay...

Regards
Johann

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