Audacity on Linux (was Couple of new partial 1987 shows)

[Stuart]

You've probably searched high and low for alternatives but there were some mentioned here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=905475
Stuart

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Alan Ford <ford.alan@...> wrote:
>
> Hi B
> Thanks for offering to help:
> 
> The problem(s) I get are that sometimes, like today, I press record and the
> 'cursor' doesn't it move; it just sits there flickering on 0.0
> Other times I have managed to get it to record music which is playing on the
> laptop; this sounds very distant, like it's recording from the speaker into
> the internal mic.
> 
> In cards I've got
>  0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
>                       HDA ATI SB at 0xf0400000 irq 16
>  1 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
>                       HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf0110000 irq 19
> 
> 
> And in Audacity devices it says
> 
> Host: ALSA
> (other option is OSS)
> 
> Playback Device: Default
> (Other options
> HDA ATI SB   etc
> HDA ATI HDMI   etc
> iec958
> spdif
> pulse)
> 
> Recording device: HDI ATI SB: ALC272 Analog (hw:0,0)
> Recording channels: 2 (Stereo)
> 
> 
> In the top rh corner there's a drop-down menu which in windows has things
> like 'line-in' and 'stereo mix'.
> Mine has Mic:0 and Front Mic:0
> 
> 
> Maybe I could arecord; unfortunately I won't have time today.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM, bbrbr57 <jpdl@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com <peel%40yahoogroups.com>, Alan Ford
> > <ford.alan@> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have so far contributed about a dozen tapes and there are more to come.
> > I
> > > just need to decide whether to persist with trying to get Audacity to
> > work
> > > on Linux, or give up and go back to Micr*S*FT.
> >
> > Alan,
> >
> > What error do you get, is it just a problem with recording or doesn't
> > Audacity work at all?
> >
> > What do you see in Edit > Preferences > Devices ? And check what you get if
> > you type "cat /proc/asound/cards" (from a shell / terminal window).
> >
> > I use arecord myself, but if audacity doesn't work, arecord probably
> > doesn't work either. But let me know if you need any help.
> >
> > B.
> >
> >  
> >
>