12 Sep
2011
12 Sep
'11
9:42 a.m.
On 09/12/2011 08:00 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote:
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
Hi Arve,
It is very very unlikely that it's related to audacity. Your device is
probably not correctly identified or supported by ALSA (the kernel
driver for sound-cards).
It may help to post the output of
sudo lsusb -v
and
cat /dev/sndstat
which will provide more info about the "little usb-thingy". I guess it
may mistakenly use some driver-settings for a similar compatible device.
Can you play audio?
aplay some-audio.wav
aplay -l # lists all audio devices
aplay -D DEVICENAME some-audio.wav
As to your subject: rezound is a great sound-file editor; but it won't
work either if arecord or qarecord do not work.
best,
robin