I have used Audacity for some years but now it won’t work. I work
under Kubuntu Linux. There are four menus, the left one gives
me one choice, ALSA. There used to be a choice of Codec, no
longer. So when I try to record, nothing happens. I record via
a Behringer digitiser gadget that plugs into a USB socket.
I tried uninstalling Audacity and re-installing it, no difference.
What can I do to make it work?
I do not understand the real question - however:
Connect (and switch on) the audio device(s) you want to use before starting Audacity - or use the “re-scan audio devices” command if you didn’t.
USB-connected devices usually identify themselves with mentioning “USB” in their name.
Uninstall/reinstall does nothing to your settings, they are stored elsewhere. On Windows somewhere in the %appdata% folder, on macOS in ~/Library/Application Support/audacity - Linux is probably similar.
I tried that, same thing. There are four input menu windows for
settings. The left-most one only has ALSA as choice. The next
one has a numbered list
- recording mono
- recording stereo
followed by 3, 4, 5, … only the numbers.
The next one is the same.
The last one gives four choices:
upmix
vdownmix
dmix
default
None of these mention Codec, which I used to be able to choose.
Is this normal?
I should add, that the sound I am trying to record is from
the laptop itself, playing a Youtube piece of music. Can
that be the problem?
I’m a Window guy, but…
I should add, that the sound I am trying to record is from
the laptop itself, playing a Youtube piece of music. Can
that be the problem?
That does make a difference. It’s “normal” to record/digitize the analog input to your soundcard but capturing what’s coming out of the soundcard requires some “tricks”.
There is information here about recording what’s playing on the computer. There are sections for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
I use Linux Mint myself and my plan B is to use Ocenaudio sometimes instead of Audacity. You could try that.
Mark B