Troubles w/ gnome-sound-recorder

[Vaughn Treude]

DX wrote:
> I use audacity for recording. With the additional plugins installed you
> could save as a wav/mp3/ogg. It has a lot of cool features and it's
> pretty stable. I use it all the time. I'm not sure how to fix your
> mixer, what I did when that happen to me was open the Alsa mixer,
> enabled everything and started messing with turning on/off stuff.
> Eventually i got it. 
> 
> Hope this helps.

DX,
Thanks, I've installed audacity and it looks like a good application. 
Unfortunately my system is still messed up.  On the mixer tool bar there 
  are sliders for input and ouput levels but no input device selector. 
I've looked at the wiki for audacity and it says I need to have the 
/dev/dsp device, which I have.  In fact, there's also a /dev/dsp1; I 
don't know what the difference between those are.  I believe I shouldn't 
need OSS emulation; OSS must be present since I was able to record 
earlier.  I've also tried the "sound card detection" tool which accepts 
my root password but never does anything.  As I said before, I'd like to 
set the mixer to its default settings, but I can't find any relevant 
files in the gnome configuration directories in my "home."  Anybody have 
any other clues?
Thanks,
Vaughn


> 
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 03:30 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> 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
>>>
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