Something else of note regarding the actual bug.
The user interface for my (alsa) sound settings seems to only offer
options when there is a sound programme active.
The 'Recording' tab in my sound settings interface says: No application
is currently recording audio.
It says this even after I open Sound Recorder. Opening Audacity doesn't
make any difference.
Input devices has a thicket of options.
So try this: You are a user. You want to record streaming audio. You
find the recorder doesn't work.
You go to input devices in the sound settings user interface. It has two
lots of options. I.e. each option has a multitude of options. Ok, Fine.
So lets see the 'Show' options:
'
All input devices
All except monitors
Hardware input devices
Virtual input devices
Monitors
'
So your first question is, where's streaming audio? I consider it a sign
of my relative technical sophistication that the phrase 'streaming
audio' makes sense to me. Just think how many people don't. How far
would they get?
Anyway, back to me. I can't see streaming audio. I don't even have any
input device as far as I know. I have a computer. I don't have a
microphone. I have an earphonse socket. I record my music on it. I
listen to it in my earphones. I use the web. That's it. Devices? I dread
to know the difference between hardware, virtual and monitor devices.
I'm sure its interesting. But I don't have the luxury of spare time.
Would that I had.
So you select 'All devices' of course.
It offers you then two other options. It offers you a volume control for
Monitor of built in audio analogue stereo. And one for Built in
audio analogue stereo.
I don't even know what that is. Is it my sound card? Does my computer
even have a sound card? I consider it a mark of my technical superiority
over most nobby users that I even know that my computer *probably*
doesn't have a sound card. It *probably* has a sound chip! Aren't I
clever. If I had time to spare, I even might look it up. But I don't, so
I'll get back to trying to get my sound recorder to work.
As for what built in audio analogue stereo is, the prospect of looking
it up online fills me with despair. This is just the first option. That
could take a whole evening on its own. There's a whole thicket of
options to get through yet. I mean, elsewhere it offers me an option for
digital stereo. Isn't it all digital? How do I get it to record
streaming audio?
Anyway, built in audio analogue stereo is offers me some other
options: microphone 1, microphone 2, line in, analogue input, video.
None of them seem to describe anything I know.
As far as I'm aware, I don't have any analogue input devices. What is an
analogue input device? I don't have any microphones (being a superior
sort of computer user, I know my computer *probably* has a mic built in
somewhere, but I don't use it). I don't have a video connected. I don't
even have a DVD playing. And 'line in' - is that like if you have an
audio line going *in* to the back of your computer. I think I may have a
line in. But I think last time I looked there may have only been a mic
input. I don't remember. But I just need to record streaming audio
anyway.
I tried various options. Nothing seems to make any difference. It seems
the sound settings user interface wants to be told about input devices.
Is my sound card an input device? Is the web an input device? Dare I try
and find the answer when the ground ahead looks very much like quicksand
that will suck you in up to your neck in sound architecture before you
know it?
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