[LBo] Recording Audio from analog

[Anita Lewis]

Ok, the outcome that works:

Audacity is unfortunately not it. I can't make my sound work without 
alsa, and audacity is not working with alsa in the version I have for 
Debian Sarge.

arecord - to record
kwave   - to edit the wav, trimming off the excess
lame    - convert from wav to mp3

Not, bad. Audacity would be nice since it does it all, but doing the 
recording with arecord is very easy and trimming with kwave is also. 
Then I run a little script to convert the batch of wavs.

I'm done messing with it.  I looked at gnusound which is very nice, but 
that also does not work with alsa.  Well, it does in version 0.7, but 
Debian Sarge is running 0.6.

Now after playing games with programs, I can do the processing of my 
tapes.  Of course, Audacity works fine on my laptop which is using OSS. 
  But that doesn't have the nifty Line-in and the usb is flaky for 
putting the mp3s on my player.  I do wonder what it is about my sound 
card that seems to need alsa.  Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) - Well, not 
exactly a card--a chip, I guess.

Anita