Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[hanzf]

Hello,
I have both Win XP and Puppy 4.1.2 on my computer. In Win XP, I use Audacity 1.2.6 to record the sound that the computer is playing. I can choose "Stereomix" (german software version) from the audacity input selector. The same with Windows Audio Recorder.
In puppy, however, this is not possible. Neither Audacity 1.3.7 (Unicode) nor mhWaveEdit allow me to record the computer sound output. Is there something basically different with Linux sound handling that makes this impossible, can that be fixed or worked around, or is it because of the recording software versions I use?

Thank You

[Lobster]

[nooby]

I also want to be able to do what hanzf ask for.

I could do it on my HP/Compaq in Vista using Audacity and Lame???? something combined. There was a description on how to set them up together and suddenly it worked for me too more out of luck than me really getting or remembering how to.

But I don't want to use Ms at all. So would be cool to do the same .

I used it on Spotify so the sound from the soundcard got tapped by the internal connection not any need to use microphone plug or anything.

Hope somebody knows how to set up Audacity in Puppy to do the same.

[stu90]

Had no luck trying to record desktop sounds either - looked in 'alsamixer' the capture volume was set at zero, set full blast and it still doesn't work for me.

[nooby]

Gently bumping this so the savvy developer see it and get motivated to share the good news on how one do it.

[vinceRABBIT]

Hello People,

i was also trying to use Puppy to record any sound the laptop was making.

Puppy already contains a tool to do this in the multimedia menu. MwEDIT or something.

However, somebody told me that to record sound you must look at the alsa mixer and press "tab" to get you into the "recording" settings window. Then you select "mix" as the source of the sound and try some sliders there.

Ofcourse, i had never used alsa before so did not know about "tabbing" into it's recording window. Alsa does not mention this tab button anywhere on it's interface....so


hope this helps you

There are also "cutsom" tools to record sound. Tools that are very efficient. One such tool is "Precord".

Vince.

[vinceRABBIT]

Hello People,

i was also trying to use Puppy to record any sound the laptop was making.

Puppy already contains a tool to do this in the multimedia menu. MwEDIT or something.

However, somebody told me that to record sound you must look at the alsa mixer and press "tab" to get you into the "recording" settings window. Then you select "mix" as the source of the sound and try some sliders there.

Ofcourse, i had never used alsa before so did not know about "tabbing" into it's recording window. Alsa does not mention this tab button anywhere on it's interface....so


hope this helps you

There are also "cutsom" tools to record sound. Tools that are very efficient. One such tool is "Precord".

Vince.

[rjbrewer]

It can be done using the simple command line tool "Wavrec"; with
almost any pc and on some laptops.

It needs a cable from line or headphone out to line input or mic input.
It works on my Powerspec pc and Inspiron 4000 but not with the
Inspiron700m.
A little 2 jack headphone plug is necessary for splitting the signal
between headphone and mic or line so you can hear what you're doing.

With 5.1.1 I turn up retrovol sliders ;
Master
Pcm
Mic; for laptop mic input
Capture
Capture.so > mic for laptop mic input, line for pc line in

Play a stream to test;
In console type;

wavrec -s 44100 -S -t 9 test.wav

That should make a 9 second file in root or my documents;
drag to player

More instructions:

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WavRec

http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l18/lesson18b.html


Running a line level signal into a mic input is not recommended.

[Karl Godt]

I think that 4.3.0/1 "streamtuner" might record streams.

installing streamtuner from debian.org at dpup-005 and lupu throws error Failed to execute child process "xmms" (no such file or directory)

and after installing a dozen xmms2 and symlinking xmms to xmms2 it still shows a large list of radio streams but won`t even play them ....

and I think I loose the will to hack the dependencies further for the moment ....

[Karl Godt]

OK OK

""child process"" : created symlink ln -s /usr/bin/aqualung /usr/bin/xmms

downloaded "streamripper" from debian squeeze http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/streamripper

created symlink /usr/bin/rxvt /usr/binx-terminal-emulator and now I`ve got
/root/Gong 96,3 powered by www.nci.de/incomplete/ - EDWYN COLLINS+++a girl like you.mp3 /root/Gong 96,3 powered by www.nci.de/incomplete/ - HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS+++stuck with you.mp3 inside a folder /root/RADIOSTATION/incomplete/

[Karl Godt]

See also :

http://lifehacker.com/263493/record-streaming-radio-with-streamripper-and-streamtuner

[rjbrewer]

In my previous post about "wavrec" I said headphones and cable
into laptop mic input is needed .
Turns out that is not the case.

The old Inspiron with Maestro3 sound will record anything I can hear
just by typing (wavrec -s 44100 -S -t 9 test.wav) in console.

The "9" after the "-t" is the time in seconds you want it to record.
The Tom Waits concert I'm recording will need 8700 seconds.
Will probably be over 2gb wav file. (actually about 10mb per minute)

Retrovol in 5.1.1 is set;
Master
Pcm
Capture
Capture.So = mix

edit;

Vlc 0.8.6 lite will record some audio streams with my 4.1.2 install.

[hanzf]

[rjbrewer]

[disciple]