Recording audio on my iMac

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Recording audio on my iMac

#1 Post by rmcellig »

I am currently running Mint 14 xfce on my iMac as my main OS and love it. I have finally figured out how to record audio from the radio attached to my iMac. It turns out that when I run the Pulse Audio Volume control app, I can record from my radio. Can I do this with Puppy Linux?
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#2 Post by rmcellig »

I just came across this. I will see if this works.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/pulseaudio

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#3 Post by darkcity »

Let us know how you get on.

BTW the Pulse audio page appears blank to me?

http://www.pulseaudio.org/
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio

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#4 Post by rmcellig »

I'm in Puppy now on my iMac booted from the CD. Still not working. Not quite sure what is different from Mint 14 and Puppy. When booted in Mint, no problem recording. I have the Pulse Audio Volume Control installed in Mint and am able to see the Sound indicators showing that it is capturing audio. See my initial post.

Not sure if I have to install Pulse Audio Volume app to get this to work. Not sure if there is a version for Puppy Linux that works.
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#5 Post by darkcity »

:twisted:

is the radio going to the line in?

what is the audio hardware in the iMac?

could you test the Pulse audio link for me?
http://www.pulseaudio.org/

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#6 Post by rmcellig »

s the radio going to the line in?

Yes

what is the audio hardware in the iMac?

I'm in Puppy now. How can I tell what the audio hardware is?



could you test the Pulse audio link for me?
http://www.pulseaudio.org/

Just tested the link. works fine.

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#7 Post by OscarTalks »

I frequently record audio from the line-in jack socket in Puppy, not with an iMac I must admit, but I have never needed to install Pulse Audio. It is just a case of finding the right settings in Retrovol or Alsa Mixer for capture.

Precord has an audio input level meter. Just click the config button to expand the GUI and then it is the button next to "Quit" in the bottom right-hand corner.
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#8 Post by rmcellig »

Thanks! I will take a look.

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#9 Post by darkcity »

Thanks for testing pulse audio website, it is working for me too now
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[I'm in Puppy now. How can I tell what the audio hardware is?
Go to PuppyMenu > System > HardInfo

Audio information is shown under Multimedia in the Summary.

also typing the following command in the terminal will list current recording devices-

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arecord -l
the 'l' is a lowercase L

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#10 Post by rmcellig »

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*** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1



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#11 Post by rmcellig »

I'm in Mint 14 now on my iMac and everything is working fine regarding recording audio from the radio so I am wondering what I am missing when I boot into Puppy Linux 5.2.8.

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#12 Post by Semme »

Consider- Mints @ least 700mb's bigger. Plenty'a xtra *BLING* packed in..

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#13 Post by rmcellig »

Thanks for the clarification. Now if we can only find out what the missing pieces to this puzzle are, that would be great!!

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#14 Post by Semme »

Did you have a look into Precord?

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#15 Post by rmcellig »

No. that one is new to me. I will check it out on my other computer right now to see what it is all about. Thanks!!

I use arecord to record my shows because I can schedule them for pre determined times in a crontab.

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Baconrecorder allows multiple scheduled events

It has a simpler interface than precord

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#17 Post by rmcellig »

Before I can try out those apps, I need to make sure that I can actually record from my radio. This is the problem I am currently having with Puppy.

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#18 Post by OscarTalks »

The point is that once you fiddle with your mixer settings and start to see the audio bouncing around on the meter (which is contained within the Precord app) you then know that the audio from your radio is going in to the right place and then you can press the button to start recording.

In other words the app will actually tell you if you are able to record from your radio or not (which I am fairly sure you will be).
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#19 Post by rmcellig »

I looked for a version of Precord that would work with Puppy Linux 5.2.8, but all I found were versions for Slacko and Precise.

I know that I have all the levels correct because I compared them to the way I have them set up in Linux Mint 14 so I think that Mint has something installed that Puppy doesn't.

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#20 Post by OscarTalks »

Just saw your post in the Precord thread.

Downloaded and tested Precord-8.1.4.pet from the first post in Lucid Plus 5.2.8-005 and all working fine. The post does mention 5.2.8 although perhaps not in the download link itself.
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