Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?

From	Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?
Date	2016-10-28 05:50 +0200
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On 10/27/2016 03:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote:
> deloptes wrote on 10/27/2016 12:14 PM:
>
>>>
>>
>> It looks reasonable. What you can do, since you have pulse installed, you
>> could run pavucontrol and setup the input devices properly. Perhaps your
>> problem is visible there - muted/default etc. I usually start recording and
>> run pavucontrol, navigate to "Input Devices" and look at the indicator - it
>> should show the level of input, play with those until it works :)
>>
>
> Excellent!
>
> pavucontrol wasn't installed, but I installed it and played with the Input
> Devices tab.
>
> And that's when I discovered that I should have been recording from "Aux"
> rather than from "Line".
>
> When I configured ALSA to record from Aux on hw:0,0, it worked perfectly.
>
> Thank you so much for suggesting pavucontrol. FWIW, I had been thinking all
> along that this problem would be so much easier to solve if only there were a
> way to monitor what was happening in real time; as far as I can tell, ALSA
> itself doesn't provide any way to do that :-(
>
> Thank you again.

pavucontrol should have been a depend on pulseaudio since the beginning 
as you can't do squat without it. Try to remove firefox and you lose 
your entire desktop. Go figure. Ric


-- 
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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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[jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 01:50 +0200
  Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 08:40 +0200
    Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 20:10 +0200
      Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 20:20 +0200
        [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 22:00 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 05:50 +0200
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 23:50 +0200
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 18:40 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 19:10 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 20:00 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 21:00 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 21:40 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 23:10 +0200
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 23:30 +0200
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?) deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 23:40 +0200
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 15:30 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 16:30 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 18:20 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 15:20 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-31 16:20 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-10-31 16:50 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-31 19:50 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA?) deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 20:00 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 20:50 +0100
                Re: [OT] Sorry state of hplip (was: [SOLVED] Re: [jessie] recording  line-in using ALSA?) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 14:20 +0100
      Re: [jessie] recording line-in using ALSA? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 20:30 +0200

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