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hanzf

Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 161 Location: Belzig, Germany
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Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 07:35 Post subject:
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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?
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 08:05 Post subject:
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Quote: | can that be fixed or worked around |
The early versions of Puppy did record.
out of the box.
You can record in some Puppys - for example Teenpup worked for me.
I had to try many to find that and your setup may be different . . .
It seems to be the drivers.
Audacity worked very well around about the 3 series
. . . and then we upgrade and the testing is lost . . .
Probably ALSA is not perfect
Recording does work in other Linux
but is not consistent.
I have two sound cards
and have to resort to recording onto an SD card
with my video camera and uploading that into mhwavedit.
I also find that USB mics are better.
Many people do and are able to record.
You might find Puppy Studio which uses different drivers
is more effective:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57447
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope
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Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 08:40 Post subject:
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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.
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not an ideal solution though
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stu90

Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1399 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup
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Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 10:16 Post subject:
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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.
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope
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Posted: Mon 20 Sep 2010, 07:42 Post subject:
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Gently bumping this so the savvy developer see it and get motivated to share the good news on how one do it.
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not an ideal solution though
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vinceRABBIT
Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 114
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Posted: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:59 Post subject:
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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.
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vinceRABBIT
Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 114
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Posted: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:59 Post subject:
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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.
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 16:30 Post subject:
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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.
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Karl Godt

Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4208 Location: Kiel,Germany
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Posted: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 18:50 Post subject:
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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 ....
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Karl Godt

Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4208 Location: Kiel,Germany
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Posted: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:06 Post subject:
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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/
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Karl Godt

Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4208 Location: Kiel,Germany
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Posted: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:23 Post subject:
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See also :
http://lifehacker.com/263493/record-streaming-radio-with-streamripper-and-streamtuner
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Wed 22 Sep 2010, 15:55 Post subject:
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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.
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hanzf

Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 161 Location: Belzig, Germany
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Posted: Fri 24 Sep 2010, 16:16 Post subject:
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vinceRABBIT wrote: |
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.
| On my computer, alsamixer has a slot named "mix" but there is no slider to move. (see alsamixer.png)
rjbrewer wrote: |
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.
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My computer turns out to be unable to produce any sound when wavrec is running. When I start wavrec while sound is being played, it only says: Code: | Device or resource busy:
Opening audio device /dev/dsp | and terminates.
rjbrewer wrote: | Retrovol in 5.1.1 is set;
Master
Pcm
Capture
Capture.So = mix | Where can I find these settings?
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Fri 24 Sep 2010, 19:23 Post subject:
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hanzf wrote: |
My computer turns out to be unable to produce any sound when wavrec is running. When I start wavrec while sound is being played, it only says: Code: | Device or resource busy:
Opening audio device /dev/dsp | and terminates.
rjbrewer wrote: | Retrovol in 5.1.1 is set;
Master
Pcm
Capture
Capture.So = mix | Where can I find these settings? |
Retrovol only exists in the latest Puppies; 4.12 has a simpler volume
control.
My old Inspiron will do wavrec, but the700m will not.
I get the same "resource busy" "/dev/dsp" as you do.
I haven't found a solution to the problem; but I think it has
something to do with the intel audio and modem sharing the
the same onboard device.(snd-intel8x0, snd-intel8x0m)
"The winmodem curse?"
The Maestro sound card in the old Inspiron does not share.
I was able to use Vlc with 4.12 to record shoutcast streams;
and it should work for others also, once I learn how to use it.
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6781 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Fri 24 Sep 2010, 21:14 Post subject:
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Quote: | Retrovol only exists in the latest Puppies; |
But you can of course install it (from the forum) in earlier puppies.
Quote: | My computer turns out to be unable to produce any sound when wavrec is running. When I start wavrec while sound is being played, it only says:
Code: | Device or resource busy:
Opening audio device /dev/dsp |
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I think maybe that means wavrec is using oss (well actually alsa's "oss emulation", since puppy doesn't include the real oss). See if you can figure out how to make it use alsa.
But you shouldn't need to use wavrec anyway. You should be able to record with any of the gui recording applications - you just need to make sure "mix" is selected as the input - in alsamixer or retrovol or wherever. Some of the recording applications have the setting themselves too.
Quote: | On my computer, alsamixer has a slot named "mix" but there is no slider to move. (see alsamixer.png) |
Yes, there is usually (always?) no slider for mix - you control the volume with the main "Capture" slider (or maybe the "Master" output slider, and "PCM" output slider or whatever). But you need to select "Mix" as the output device (in alsamixer you select it with the space key).
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