Relative newb in Linux and audacity

[vanislander47]

I am new here and new to audacity, however I do have several years of Linux use.. mostly ubuntu and variants such as mint. Right now I am running mint 9 kde edition.I have been trying to record a radio stream with audacity (listening in VLC) and it is nothing but frustration..I have so many sound server options to choose from (none of them work properly) and I get to where I think it is working and it crashes...The info. I am trying to record is extremely important to me and others and yet, a task that seems relatively simple is a freaking nightmare and causes my blood to boil and the overall experience is extremely poor. I can do this in windows till the cows come home..not even a burp...I hate MS products and do not support them in any way, so I really need this to work under Linux. I have an ASUS board with intel HDA sound and like I mentioned , it works flawlessly in windows 7. I know this software is free and I appreciate all the massive efforts by those who provide this, but I can't justify spending hours and days trying to get something this easy to work.

[steve]

I'm part way through writing instructions for how to do this using Ubuntu. The wiki page is not quite complete yet and there may be errors, but it may be some help: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Stere ... _Ubuntu_10