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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
