Troubles w/ gnome-sound-recorder

[Vaughn Treude]

Excuse me for the repost, I messed up the subject line.  Must have had a 
senior moment.
Vaughn

Vaughn Treude wrote:
> I'll continue in the sound-related vein.
> I've got Centos 4.4 on my Sony Vaio notebook.  I'm try to record analog 
> audio from the microphone jack.  The program that came with this distro, 
> gnome-sound-recorder version 2.8.0, is the buggiest Linux program I've 
> seen in a long time.  The time slider doesn't move, it won't show any 
> information (channels, etc.) about the file, and I can't save the file 
> once it's recorded.  It doesn't seem to allow me to record in WAV 
> format, rather than FLAC, whatever that is.  Worse still, after I 
> fiddled with it for about 15 minutes, it suddenly STOPPED recording and 
> now records only silence.  It may have been because I was messing with 
> the mixer settings; does anyone know how to set them back to the default 
> value?
> Another odd symptom: the sound, as piped in from the microphone and out 
> through the headphone jack, now sounds distorted, and yet I've backed 
> off all the levels, and everything on the mixer looks reasonable.  And I 
> have brought the computer completely down and back up.  I wonder if I 
> may have somehow damaged the hardware.  The input, which I was using 
> just for test purposes, was from the headphone jack of a portable music 
> player, so I wouldn't expect it to have caused problems.
> After this I tried the command-line "arecord" program and it won't 
> record anything either, probably because I've completely hosed my mixer 
> settings.
> Once again, how does a person reset the mixer?  And can anyone recommend 
> a better program?
> Thanks!
> Vaughn Treude
>