Audacity Forum

After countless hours of struggle in the Linux audio jungle with much trial and error, many dead-ends, and a disappointing lack of relevant help on this forum, I finally stumbled upon the steps to a solution. Guided by information found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Ar...

That’s informative. As far as I can see, there are 2 video cards but neither is a capture device. $ lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0412] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA cont...

Thanks for the information. What I wrote, then, doesn’t apply to capturing digital streams, but presumably does to playing them. Doesn’t the digital connection from the NP30 radio to the Sound Blaster DAC also bypass DA/AD conversion, providing the same exact copy as using VLC? SAA7134 seems to rela...

I used to do what you suggested, but what I want to do has advantages. 1. Audio Quality From everything I’ve read, the sound (and recording) quality is likely to be superior when using external devices due to elimination of interference from computer components and probably better quality of externa...

I have a Cambridge Audio Sonata NP30 Internet radio connected by Toslink to the S/PDIF In of a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi USB DAC. Using Audacity 2.1.3 (installed from Fedora Repository) in Fedora 25 (XFCE) I want to capture music from the NP30, but Audacity doesn’t record it. Tried various setting...