Audacity Forum

lsmod output gives you all the sound modules loaded into the kernel, which does include all the other support modules. To list just the hardware drivers, try cat /proc/asound/modules or for more of a hardware list cat /proc/asound/cards The most useful tool for troubleshooting is arecord / aplay fro...

This does seem to be the case - we'll have to investigate further what is going on.

Hmm, I will be quite glad when KDE4 depreciates artsd - advances in ALSA means it now often works much better with Artsd out of the way (as you've proved).

Providing you are on a journalled file system (so that the file system survives) a power cut shouldn't be a major problem for console sound recorders - the data is written out to the file as it's read from the sound device, so you should just get a truncated audio file up until shortly before the cu...

Can't you just set the time display in audacity to be "seconds" in that case? This is certainly an option in 1.3.x, and would mean that the label list and the interface use the same units (seconds and decimals of them).

Last time I checked I thought Ebay had some sort of conditions about selling software in there Ts&Cs, which is about the only real option - persuading Ebay not to let people list open-source software on there because it's so rarely done right. They have similar restrictions for alcohol I think.

One reason there may well not be a nice peak visible in the spectrum is that it's very hard to distinguish coloured noise from tones at that kind of frequencies. So it's entirely possible that what you are hearing is multiple square-wave noise sources caused by pick-up of interference from the rest ...

What distribution? What version of audacity? Can you hear your microphone through the computer speakers "live"? If you can't then you probably have it muted on the sound card mixer. Try alsamixer to un-mute the relevant input and turn up the level, as well as the recording level (sometimes marked as...

/dev/dsp isn't a "real" file but a device node which programs use to communicate with the kernel. So the fact that there isn't a file there means that the kernel doesn't have anything to do with one, either because there is no hardware there or no drivers for it. So you need to load the relevant ker...

Can you try the current CVS head? I've updated the portaudio snapshot there, which may help you. I'm not clear at the moment where the critical error is, given that there are several floating around (the syslog ones, and then the exception in alsa-lib, and then the audacity error). Can you try using...