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If you were prepared to put time and effort into researching the problem, you would probably solve it. Although Linux has much better device support than it used to have, devices may not "simply work" as they do on Windows (given the correct drivers).

Is it a PCI SoundBlaster or USB SoundBlaster? You'll need to make that clear if you go off to Linux Forums asking about it.


Gale

It's a very old PCI card given to me by a friend. I like it because it has inputs not available on the motherboard soundcard (for example, What You See Is What You Get is very handy for recording audio directly from the Internet). That input is not available on alsamixer, at least not by that name.

Ken Coburn wrote:It's a very old PCI card given to me by a friend. I like it because it has inputs not available on the motherboard soundcard (for example, What You See Is What You Get is very handy for recording audio directly from the Internet). That input is not available on alsamixer, at least not by that name.

Drivers.

As I said, you can't expect a PCI card intended for Windows to "just work" on Linux if you plug it in without installing non-generic Linux drivers for it. With a USB SoundBlaster you would have more chance.

Or you could try the motherboard sound device if there is a blue line-in port on your machine that connects to the motherboard. If the motherboard line-in has the same issue that may suggest the problem lies in some resource management issue: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Manag ... nd_Drivers .

You can record computer playback on Linux by following http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... linux.html (if pulse is working correctly).

There probably would be a What U Hear input for SB Live! in ALSAMixer... IF you had proper Linux drivers for it.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:It's possible Audacity 2.0.5 on Mint 17 can't import and export WMA, M4A and other FFmpeg formats. Do you know about that. Steve?

Audacity 2.0.5 on Mint 17 is built without FFmpeg support.