[LBo] Recording Audio from analog

[Jim Westbrook]

I'm glad that you found a combo that worked for you.  I have two boxen 
which will only work with alsa, so you're not alone on that front.  One 
has an Intel chipset, the other one has a Via chipset.  When/if I get 
the wherewithall to devote a few hundred hours to copying vinyl 
recordings to CDs, I'll give asound a try.

JimW

Anita Lewis wrote:

> 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