Confirmed. The workaround is of course easy but clumsy (re-enable recording again and again), but it takes a while before you even realize what's going on, if you figure it out at all.
This bug renders the soundrecorder quite useless, at least for human beings, so I'm bumping the severity a bit. ** Changed in: gnome-media (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal => Major Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Sound recorder disables the capture device after a second recording https://launchpad.net/bugs/39119 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs