Sound-Recorder problems

[David Curry]

Bob Goodwin wrote:

> David Curry wrote:
>
>> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>            Audacity on this computer acts about the same as your Gnome
>>>>            sound-recorder, looks like it's trying to record but 
>>>> nothing ...
>>>>
>>>>            I think Gnome sound-recorder crashing is a separate problem
>>>>            here. I would like to remove it and reinstall. Can anyone
>>>>            tell me which RPM it is in?
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I do believe the problem is not with gnome-sound-recorder, it is with
>>> alsa. Try to record from the command line with arecord and you get same
>>> problem: a recorded file with no sound. If you turn your speaker volume
>>> to max when you aplay the file you get white noise.
>>>  
>>>
>> Your note made me aware of arecord and then I discovered aplay 
>> through using man arecord.
>>
>> I also get an output file with nothing in it other than white noise.  
>> I suspect, though, that whether we use command line arecord or 
>> gnome-sound-recorder to attempt recording sound we are using the same 
>> underlying application.  That is, I suspect that gnome-sound-recorder 
>> is simply a gui frontend for arecord.  That may not be the case, but 
>> I suspect it.
>>
> "I suspect that gnome-sound-recorder is simply a gui frontend for 
> arecord"
>
> And it appears that the same is true for alsa and apparently the 
> problem is that "arecord" does not work in FC-2.
>
> See:  
> http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/3-arecord_and_rtmix/quick-toot-arecord_and_rtmix-1.html 
>
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
As it turns out, gnomepsoundprecorder is apparently a gui frontend for a 
program named grecorder.  At least that is what the properties dialong 
entries say if one right-clicks on the Sound Recorder menu item in Red 
Hat -->  Sound & Video --> menu.

At the moment, I am looking into alsactl which saves amixer/alsamixer 
settings in /etc/asound.state.  One can get a readout of all controls 
and their settings by entering,  alsactl  contents on a command line in 
directory /usr/bin/.