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On 12 September 2011 09:42, Robin Gareus  wrote:

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

>> 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

>

The thing doesn't have any output mode according to the documentation.

Which makes sense, since it doesn't show up with aplay -l

lsusb output: http://pastebin.com/ZSRbSa5q

No such thing as /dev/sndstat. I'm on Gentoo if that makes any difference?
It's this device: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-cassette-capture-2-x-aa-82121

I see from a recent review that I might not care to get this working

if it's only mono, but any more hints as to why this isn't working

would be nice.
Arve

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