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JoeS

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Registered: 2013-10-03

Posts: 41

Setting audio on Audacity?

I am trying to record from the sound card with audacity. I can't get this to work. I have a number of choices for output device and quite a few for input. The input is set to sysdefault and output to default. I think Crunchbang is using pulse audio and I am not familiar with this. Does anyone know how to set up the audio? It works fine when I listen to audio.

I also tried recording with arecord; it wouldn't work either.

Thanks

Last edited by JoeS (2014-05-02 18:56:37)

andoru

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Registered: 2014-02-23

Posts: 325

Re: Setting audio on Audacity?

Could you specify what options you have, and from which line you're trying to record?

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Bob E

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Registered: 2012-01-12

Posts: 90

Re: Setting audio on Audacity?

There is one setting that is kind of tricky to find because you have to be in the act of recording to find it.

Play some music, open Audacity and click the record button, let it run. Then open the Pulse Volume Control panel, and click on the Recording tab. Where it says "ALSA Capture from" make sure the drop-down box is showing "Monitor of Built-In Audio Analog Stereo".

Just in case, the other settings I have on the Pulse Volume Control panel are:
- Output Devices tab: Analog Output
- Input Devices tab: Line In
- Configuration tab: Analog Stereo Duplex

On the Audacity settings panel I have - ALSA : default : default line 0 : 2(stereo)

This is the setup that works on my system. Hope it helps for yours.

JoeS

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Registered: 2013-10-03

Posts: 41

Re: Setting audio on Audacity?

The options I mentioned were for the input and output devices on Audacity. The input device has a lot of entries and I thought that was the problem.

Thanks Bob E. That fixed the problem. I'm new to pulse and didn't know about that.
Bob E