On 12 September 2011 09:42, Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > The thing doesn't have any output mode according to the documentation. Which makes sense, since it doesn't show up with aplay -l lsusb output: http://pastebin.com/ZSRbSa5q No such thing as /dev/sndstat. I'm on Gentoo if that makes any difference? It's this device: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-cassette-capture-2-x-aa-82121 I see from a recent review that I might not care to get this working if it's only mono, but any more hints as to why this isn't working would be nice. Arve _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
