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On 09/12/2011 08:00 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote:

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> I have a simple little usb-thingy that I want to record sound from. It

> shows up just fine in audacity, but when I press record with it set as

> the input device, audacity freezes completely, and I have to kill it.

> I've tried ecasound and qarecord, but I couldn't really make any of

> them work. Anyone have any experience with this? Should I just try an

> older version of audacity? Just looking for some hints before I start

> the whole downgrading process (the older, "stable", version of

> audacity comes with the thingy, so that's supposed to work).

>

> Arve

Hi Arve,
It is very very unlikely that it's related to audacity. Your device is

probably not correctly identified or supported by ALSA (the kernel

driver for sound-cards).
It may help to post the output of

  sudo lsusb -v

and

  cat /dev/sndstat
which will provide more info about the "little usb-thingy". I guess it

may mistakenly use some driver-settings for a similar compatible device.
Can you play audio?

  aplay some-audio.wav
  aplay -l # lists all audio devices

  aplay -D DEVICENAME some-audio.wav
As to your subject: rezound is a great sound-file editor; but it won't

work either if arecord or qarecord do not work.
best,

robin

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