Audacity Forum

As no Audacity expert on this forum (or elsewhere) has come up with a fix to the problem of it not recording from an external DAC-tuner, I tried ocenaudio. Without any set-up, 2 mouse clicks and it started recording the external audio. Ocenaudio has all the capabilities I require, so goodbye Audacity.

Yes, I think you've got it pretty much right. This is what the motherboard (with 1 HDMI port) specifications say about the onboard audio: “Realtek® ALC1150 codec High Definition Audio 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel Support for S/PDIF Out” The video card / graphics accelerator is a Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GT 61...

Ignore the Audio Device Info in my previous post -- I didn't turn off the external Internet Radio Player when I hard booted the computer and accessed the data. The latest info is different from the previous, with 3 additional devices listed. ============================== Default capture device numb...

Yes, pavucontrol was installed from the beginning but I couldn't get the Xonar to detect external audio (meaning no sound from the headphones) until creating the .asoundrc file. But now, after following your instructions including moving .asoundrc, the external sound does play through the headphones...

Here is the Audio Device Info: ============================== Default capture device number: 8 Default playback device number: 8 ============================== Device ID: 0 Device name: HDA Intel HDMI: 0 (hw:0,3) Host name: ALSA Input channels: 0 Output channels: 8 Low Input Latency: -1.000000 Low O...

Audacity 2.0.5 (installed from Synaptic), Linux Mint 17.1 KDE Edition (with ALSA & PulseAudio) Since switching to a new computer and another OS I am no longer able to record audio streams from an external DAC-tuner-preamp (Cambridge Audio Sonata NP30) connected by optical cable to the S/PDIF In of t...