Re: [linux-audio-user] I need help recording from soundcard

Hey folks, You all have been great so far at helping me figure out all this audio stuff, and I have a new problem that perhaps one of you can solve. The problem: I kinda don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to get some material from minidisc (remember those) onto my computer as wav files so that i can edit them and move them onto CD. The problem is I can't get a peep into my system from my MD player. I am using the following tools to accomplish this. A sound Blaster Live card and ALSA., KDE, and Cinelerra. Hopefully one of you has this or a similar combo so you can follow along. I am trying to output from the analog outputs of my MD player into the Sound blaster. I have no pcm digital outputs on the MD player or else i would use those. I have the md player and my sound card connected via the analog output of the player to the jack on the very top of the back of the sound blaster (that's line in). I open the Kmix panel and make sure that Gain is high and that the green button below the word "iGain" is lit. Then i make sure that the green button below Line is lit and that the volume of that is high and the red button below it is lit as well. I start Cinelerra and choose File..Record. I choose a file name, the "Microsoft WAV" format and check Record audio tracks. I unchecked Record Video tracks.. I press OK. I am given a monitoring window and a recording dialog. In the monitoring window the meters are jumping, but i don;t think hight enough and they may be reacting to other noise.. I have the md player playing something. I hit the record button and let it run for awhile. Then i hit stop, exit the program and play what I've done in Xine. If i turn the volume all the way up, i can hear what I recorded faintly. In the recording window there is a text box labeled Source. I wold think that it is supposed to have /dev/something in it, but I don't; know what. On a sound blaster what is the line-in mapped to. I have all these /dev/dsp devices, but i don't know what to look as far as a device for the analog in. When i switch the red dot (record input) in kmix to the volume control, my meters start jumping a lot, and recording gives me good sound when i play back the resulting file. The devices is still not set in this case, so I don;t know whether that matters at all. Can anyone give me a clue? I've looked around the web a bit, browsed the ALSA archives and have struck out. Thanx, Bearcat M. Sandor