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Audacity not monitoring and not going when record selected
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 5:55 am
by pmrlondon
I am using Debian squeeze/amd64 which contains audacity 1.3.12-beta (1.3.12-6 is Debian package version).
I intend mainly to record from Line In on my main sound card, which is supported by ALSA. In fact, I have already used it successfully. However, I tried to use it just now and I could not get it to monitor the sound, nor would it actually go when I clicked Record - it remained "stuck" at 0.
No error messages appear and nothing I have tried, including restarting ALSA and changing settings in the mixer, have made any difference.
Why would this happen? I have not managed to find a reason, so I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:19 am
by bgravato
I'm on Debian Squeeze/i386 and it works fine...
What happens when you select "Start Monitoring" from the drop-down menu next to the mic icon on the toolbar?
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:04 am
by pmrlondon
bgravato wrote:I'm on Debian Squeeze/i386 and it works fine...
What happens when you select "Start Monitoring" from the drop-down menu next to the mic icon on the toolbar?
It switches into monitoring mode, as evidenced by the option being "Stop Monitoring" next time I look at the menu. Apart from that, it does nothing.
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:33 am
by bgravato
May be a dumb question but just to make sure... when you record you get sound and it records properly right?
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:46 am
by pmrlondon
bgravato wrote:May be a dumb question but just to make sure... when you record you get sound and it records properly right?
At the present time, it does not record. It won't "go".
It has worked in the recent past.
There are now a couple of errors appearing in the terminal when I try to monitor:
JackSocketClientChannel read fail
Cannot open PortAudio client
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:57 am
by pmrlondon
pmrlondon wrote:There are now a couple of errors appearing in the terminal when I try to monitor:
JackSocketClientChannel read fail
Cannot open PortAudio client
They are actually appearing when I start audacity. I do not know how to resolve them.
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:07 am
by bgravato
That changes a bit the picture... On Preferences -> Devices, which devices have you selected for Host, Playback and Recording? Which options do you have available? Are you running pulseaudio, jack, esd or any other sound system beyond the alsa drivers?
Can you play a track on audacity? (such as an imported mp3)
Does sound work properly in other apps?
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:01 pm
by pmrlondon
bgravato wrote:That changes a bit the picture... On Preferences -> Devices, which devices have you selected for Host, Playback and Recording? Which options do you have available? Are you running pulseaudio, jack, esd or any other sound system beyond the alsa drivers?
Can you play a track on audacity? (such as an imported mp3)
Does sound work properly in other apps?
Thanks to your suggestions I was able to discover that some bad things were going on with my sound hardware. The more I tried to get it right, the less appeared to work at all. The analog playback device on the HDA ATI SB had in fact disappeared altogether. I took the easy way out: a reboot. Audacity now seems to be working again. I will look for a better way to reset it next time it seems to be giving any trouble.
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:14 pm
by bgravato
You can try unloading and reloading the kernel sound modules.
I think there was also an alsa command (or some other way) that allowed to reset it, but I don't remember now which was... and I'm not at my linux pc at the moment... Check alsactl or something similar, it should be in the alsa package...
Re: Audacity not monitoring and not going when record select
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:35 am
by pmrlondon
bgravato wrote:I think there was also an alsa command (or some other way) that allowed to reset it, but I don't remember now which was... and I'm not at my linux pc at the moment... Check alsactl or something similar, it should be in the alsa package...
Hmmm... alsactl init 0 works...