I'm completely new to ALSA and I'm having trouble using the arecord program.
Using the following command: arecord -t wav -f cd -d 5 test.wav
Creates a .wav file 5 seconds long as expected.
However when playing this file there is no sound.
I've had a look using 'alsamixer' and the capture volume is over half way so I'm assuming it's not that.
I can't get arecord to record any sound. I've tried running firefox with some streaming stuff or even just playing a song with totem from a mp3 on my hard drive. I'm running
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But the resulting test.wav has no sound in it.
I'm running maverick as installed. What gives?
I have a cronjob which is supposed to run every 15 minutes and record with arecord for 900 seconds. When I run the script manually, arecord record for 900 seconds, but when cron starts the script it stops recording after about 90-110 seconds.
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rndusr@0x90:~/ralog$ cat rec.sh
#!/bin/bash
YEAR=$(date +"%Y")
mkdir /home/rndusr/ralog/data/$YEAR
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Normally i use "arecord" to capture and dump in a file (.wav). If i want to play the file then i use "aplay". But, is it possible that, insted of capturing to a file and then playing the file offline, if i want to play it realtime
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if this helps, here is the error message received when jack does not start when the normal duplex option is selected.
21:24:04.867 Patchbay deactivated.
21:24:04.868 Statistics reset.
21:24:04.886 ALSA connection change.
Cannot connect to server socket err = Connection refused
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also, when i open alsamixer in the terminal for some reason the headphone part is greyed out, even when the sound is working before qjackctl is opened.
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$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
$ arecord -l
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lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd. Device 4002
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gentle@Desktop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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System -> Administration->System Testing
(testing only for sound). I get:
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
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aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
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My sound card infomation:
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nVidia Audio device
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It's OK in windows 7.
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This is the output of chromium:
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libxine1 from Packman
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Maybe it's just an Amarok2 problem, but whenever another app (for example Konversation) plays a sound file, the audio instantly cuts out (in Amarok2) and will not come back unless I quit Amarok2 and restart it.
Amarok2 has only the options - "HDA ATI SB VT 1708S Analog" or "PulseAudio" (which is NOT installed).
alsa-info here - [URL]
Also I am totally confused by the mixer, it has so many knobs that I am totally lost!
here's a lovely pic - [URL]
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