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Re: Sound recording in ALSA



On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:35:05PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm using Sid with Debian's 2.6.8-1-686 kernel package on a Dell PC with an 
> Intel 8x0 sound device and ALSA.  My ultimate goal is to get liveice to 
> read from the line in on my sound card, but I'm trying to take baby steps 
> to get there.
> 
> Right now I'm attempting to record by:
> 
>    1) Going into KMix and selecting "Line" as the capture device (verified 
> with amixer).
>    2) Using something like "arecord -t wav -d 10 /tmp/foo.wav" to attempt to 
> record the sound that's being played through my speakers to a file.

Make sure both the line device and the master capture device are enabled
and have a non-zero input volume. In kmix for my sound card, the capture
device is on the far right.

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