[LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack recording?

[Cedric Roux]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arve Barsnes" <arve.barsnes at gmail.com>
> To: "linux-audio-user" <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 8:00:35 AM
> Subject: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack recording?
> 
> I have a simple little usb-thingy that I want to record sound from.
> It
> shows up just fine in audacity, but when I press record with it set
> as
> the input device, audacity freezes completely, and I have to kill it.
> I've tried ecasound and qarecord, but I couldn't really make any of
> them work. Anyone have any experience with this? Should I just try an
> older version of audacity? Just looking for some hints before I start
> the whole downgrading process (the older, "stable", version of
> audacity comes with the thingy, so that's supposed to work).
> 
> Arve

does arecord work?