*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1157654 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1157654
Confirming: 'Record from input' offers only one option: Master 'Record as' offers no options: it is blank. Although I'm a technical user, I must say that although the above comments suggest it is a configuration issue, I don't see anything wrong in sound settings. Whatsmore, it just used to work before I upgraded my system from 12.04 to 14.04. In short: - sound recording should "just work" - is there a temporary workaround I could use? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-media in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1230231 Title: gnome-sound-recorder does not record Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: gnome-sound-recorder not working. Failure was, initially, an attempt to get it recording streaming audio out of the box. That having failed, I tried changing its options, and my (alsa) sound options. Failing that I started looking for help online: the problem looked horribly complex and the way to a solution looked frought with difficulty, with a horrendously steep learning curve. It looked like I might have to learn all about Linux's underlying sound system just to get the recording device to work. I gave up and went back to my work without the hope that I might go an as before, doing the recording of streaming audio that had been an essential part of it. That was nearly a year ago when I upgraded to Xubuntu, and I have recovered the same steps again occassionally, just to check it still wasn't working, and just to check that I've not seen an easy solution because I'm stupid. I think I have come to understand that I'm not stupid; I'm a user. And the sound recorder doesn't work. In the sound-recorder interface, the options are stuck. 'Record from input' offers only one option: Master 'Record as' offers no options: it is blank. Pressing record does nothing. The sound level indicator is flat. I have played with some of the settings in the user interface for (Alsa) sound preferences. But it has acheived nothing. Most of the settings in the Alsa interface are not written in English anyway. They are written in some sort of arcane sound architecture language that can be understood by nobody but sound software experts, programmers and perhaps linux computer administrators. The Alsa output options are actually refreshingly comprehensible. They are written in plain English. But it's input options are gibberish. The Campaign for Plain English are worth a ganders. The idea of plain English is not that you have to write everything in goo-goo baby- language, or spell it out as if it is thought that users are idiots. You just have to write user interfaces in a way that allows people not immersed in the arcane world of sound architectures to use them. This is a bug because it doesn't work and because there is no way for a sensible user to find any reasonable way of getting it working. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gnome-media 3.4.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Sep 25 10:15:30 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (300 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-media UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (133 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/1230231/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp