Audacity worked once, but not twice.
Here's something weird.
Last week I brought home my pastor's sermon on audio cassette and copied
it to my hard drive using a standard tape deck, an RCA-to-1/8th inch
cable, and audacity. Audacity was set to read /dev/dsp at 44.1 kHz at
16 bps (CD quality). So I got the audio file I wanted and was able to
make an audio cd without a hitch. I was quite pleased.
This week I brought home the tape, plunked it in to my drive,
double-checked to make sure that audacity was still reading /dev/dsp,
and hit the appropriate buttons. For some reason, though it wasn't
going to work this time. Audacity was reading nothing but zeros from
/dev/dsp, even though there was sound coming from my computer's
speakers.
I double-checked the permissions to make sure that I do indeed have read
permissions on /dev/dsp and that is the case. I also tried running the
program as root to see if that fixed the situation at all, but my
computer wouldn't let root open a display (I need to figure out how to
fix this, too).
Can anybody think of why this is happening, especially since I've done
absolutely nothing different to my computer between the two recording
sessions? Like I said, sound is coming out of my speakers, so I know
that /dev/dsp has some data, but audacity can't read it, and I don't see
any logs that it's generating to help me debug the situation.
Thanks.
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Stephen W. Juranich sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
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