Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack recording?

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Subject: Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack recording?

Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 10:29 am

On 13 September 2011 10:46, david wrote:

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>> as several people have noted, it would be much better to fiddle more
>> with arecord first.
>
> Maybe. My UCA-202 records fine using Audacity. I couldn't get arecord to
> record anything from it, but I wasn't really trying that hard. When I try to
> record using JACK, JACK fails to start up, reporting something about an
> impossible sample size.
>
> My feeling based on the original poster's info is that his device is only
> marginally supported by ALSA.
>

Indeed, it is probably the cheapest thing available. But contrary to
your experience, I still couldn't get audacity to work, but arecord
worked just fine. That's probably some mismatch on what kind of
quality audio audacity is expecting though, and the same is probably
true of your device.
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[LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack recording?, Arve Barsnes, (Mon Sep 12, 6:01 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Ken Restivo, (Wed Sep 14, 6:25 pm)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Robin Gareus, (Mon Sep 12, 7:42 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Paul Davis, (Mon Sep 12, 10:28 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Robin Gareus, (Mon Sep 12, 10:58 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., allcoms, (Mon Sep 12, 11:08 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Arve Barsnes, (Mon Sep 12, 11:12 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Paul Davis, (Mon Sep 12, 11:14 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., david, (Tue Sep 13, 8:46 am)

Re: [LAU] Alternative to audacity for simple non-jack record..., Arve Barsnes, (Tue Sep 13, 10:29 am)