Audacity no "Wave Out" source [SOLVED]

Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Hi guys,

I am trying to use audacity to record some audio streaming off the net.
The site http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=streaming suggests to select "wave out" or "stereo mix" from the drop down menu, but I have only "Mic:0" and "Front Mic:0".
Is this an issue related with alsa? Or is there something in the kernel I have to check?

Thanks for the help!

Efo

gerard27 · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:57 pm Post subject:

We need more info about your alsa.
I can record streaming audio with audacity w/o problem.
Do you have any kind of mixer installed?
If so check to see "mix mono" is available that's what I use.
Gerard.

Edit:Mix mono records in stereo.Why it's called mix mono I don't know.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Hi gerard82,

Thank you for the reply. I have never played around with this, so forgive my cluelessness.
I have gnome-alsamixer installed, which has "Nvidia ID 3" in "Mixer Names and Visibility". This already looks a little funny to me.
I also have sdl-mixer installed (related?)

gerard27 · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:39 pm Post subject:

I use neither.
Can you find anything like "capture" in either mixer?
If you have alsa-utils installed you can run alsamixer in a terminal.
I've had problems at first to make this work.
I ran alsamixer and enabled everything.
I use kmix but if you don't use kde that's no option.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

I have capture in alsamixer and I have "Rec." checked.
I also have alsa-utils installed; however, I think gnome-alsamixes is the GUI for alsamixer.

gerard27 · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject:

Can audacity play soundfiles on your HDD?
Do you have other soundrelated software installed (jack esound etc) ?
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Hi Gerard,

That's a good point, I have mplayer and xine working on the system; but if I try to play a file with audacity the sound doesnt come out. You may be on to something here...

Efo

gerard27 · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject:

Did you set the Device preferences in Audacity?
Mine is set to alsa.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

I have the device set to ALSA, and I changed the playback option to dmix: now it plays the music files, but still no recording.

gerard27 · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject:

Audacity is very picky.
In the past with kde-3.5 you had to kill the kde sound daemon artsd.
I only have experience with my own hardware which is soundblaster emu10k1.
Try different entries for device in audacity.
Sorry to be of little help.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

I tried the different options without success.
Thank you for helping and keeping the post alive, maybe someone with a similar problem will pop in.

Efo

Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

[update]

I installed kmix, which provided me with more playback options, to no avail. I tired all the new options but no recording.
Anybody with any idea?

gerard27 · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:34 am Post subject:

Hi efo,
I wonder if you succeeded in recording streams w. audacity.
Maybe this post will help.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-818256-highlight-.html
In kmix did you see "ac97" ?
I have to enable it and tick "capture".
Grtz,
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Hi Gerard,

Thanks to keep looking. That is a nice link, I had a bunch of codecs installed in the kernel and I removed most of them. Unfortunately I am still having the same problem, but now I have a feeling it has to do with the backend.

When I run kmix I get the following message:
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
nonetheless it is present as a process. However, nothing changes in Audacity.

Thanks again,

Efo

Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Little update,

I am trying to use qarecord, but when I try to check the "capture" box I get:
Error opening PCM device plughw:0 (Device or resource busy)
Could not open PCM for capture.
ALSA capture failed!

gerard27 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject:

I'll ask again:
Do you have jack and/or esound installed.
I had to put -jack in /etc/portage/package.use for audacity.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Hi Gerard,

Sorry for missing that, and thank you for bearing with me.
No I dont have "jack" installed, but I did reemerged audacity with "-jack"... just in case.
I dont know if it is relevant but I have pulseaudio installed, it is required by few packages. Also, I can record from the front microphone.
By the way, when you can record the stream, do you have the "stereo mix" or "wave out" option in the drop down menu?

Efo

gerard27 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject:

In my dropdown menu I have :
Line.0
Video.0
Phone.0
CD.0
Aux.0
Mic.0
Mix.0
Mix Mono.0
Both Mix.0 and Mix Mono.0 work for streams.
Of the others I only use Line.0 when I want to copy from my external amplifier.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

All I have is:

Mic:0
Front Mic:0

gerard27 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject:

I don't have pulseaudio,kde uses phonon.
I browsed the pulseaudio ebuild and it mentions jack-audio-connection-kit.
You could install it and experiment with the different connection possibilities.
You may need to re-emerge pulseaudio after installing jack-audio-connection-kit
and audacity with jack use flag.
I have a completely different setup on my box so -jack in my case is ok.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

I had jack-audio-connection-kit installed with jack... now I have removed jack and related flags from pulseaudio and audacity.

Too bad your system has completely different setup, but I surely appreciate your help.

gerard27 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:45 pm Post subject:

Do you have gstreamripper installed?
It can record streams which you later could load into audacity.
Gerard.
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gerard27 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject:

Hi efo,
Have you read this?
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel
Scroll to the Linux part.
There's a link with more info in it.
Gerard.
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Efo · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 498

Hi Gerard,

gstreamripper doesnt really give me all I want.
Anyway, I am working on it but I wanted to give you an update; here is what I have from "About audacity..." "Build Information" tab:

Build Information

File Format Support
libmad (MP3 Importing) Enabled
libvorbis (Ogg Vorbis Import and Export) Disabled
libid3tag (ID3 tag support) Disabled
libflac (FLAC import and export) Disabled
libtwolame (MP2 export) Disabled
QuickTime (Import via QuickTime) Disabled
Core Libraries
libsamplerate (Sample rate conversion) Enabled
PortAudio (Audio playback and recording) v19
wxWidgets 2.8.10 (Unicode)
Features
Nyquist (Plug-in support) Enabled
LADSPA (Plug-in support) Disabled
Vamp (Plug-in support) Disabled
Audio Units (Plug-in support) Disabled
PortMixer (Sound card mixer support) Enabled
SoundTouch (Pitch and Tempo Change support) Disabled
Build Information
Program build date: Mar 7 2010
Build type: Release build

Does anything look funny compared to your info?

gerard27 · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:26 pm Post subject:

In the link I sent you there's another link which contains this:

QUOTE
Audacity

Audacity as packaged in Fedora 11 and 12 works with PulseAudio.

Audacity has now been packaged with a proper "alsa: pulse" device listed, in a ppa for ubuntu intrepid. See https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive

The following is information for versions without the pulseaudio patch:

Audacity doesn't support PulseAudio, nor Esound for the moment. You'll have to kill or suspend pulseaudio before you use this application. Audacity uses the PortAudio cross-platform Audio API which doesnt support pulseaudio. Some work was started on making portaudio support PulseAudio but this does not appear to be under active development currently and does not work in it's current state.

Audacity can use OSS for sound input and sound output. By changing the 2 settings in preferences to /dev/dsp, and running audacity as

padsp audacity

you route OSS sound through pulseaudio and can have successful playback and recording with audacity. You could also set the sound input to be ALSA which (for regular users) is less likely to be blocked by another application, as recording with multiple applications at once is less commonly done

Using pasuspender to momentarily suspend pulseaudio is another way to use Audacity.

pasuspender -- audacity <argument>
END OF QUOTE.

The output of about audacity you showed looks ok.
This line is the most important: