Sound recorder does not record stream - hardy

[N T Alexander]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

I spent hours and hours going through forums and trying all kinds of settings to make default Gnome Sound Recorder to work. All other sound features are working great. This bug is extremely frustrating to me because I have to return to Windows to record audio - as soon as this bug is fixed I can format my windows xp hard drive.

Steps to recreate the problem:
1. start playing an audio track or internet stream - same results with both
2. open sound recorder.
3. click the record button.
4. stop audio track.
5. stop recording.
6. play recording. I am expecting to hear the audio track - instead I am hearing a hiss.

Next steps:
7. open alsamixer and turn everything up, turn on all capture.
8. repeat - still no recording - it is capturing a hiss only.

more steps.
9. retry steps 1-6 recording in turn (using "record from input" dropdown options: pcm, synth, line-in, cd, microphone (with mic), mic boost (with mic). Result was the same, no recording, only a hiss.

last thing I tried:
10. uninstall OSS and retry 1-9. No recording- hiss only.

 I am not sure what all I should print here, but I will try to put everything I can think of:

Ubuntu 8.04

per modprobe, the soundcard module is: snd-cmipci. snd-cmipci matches what the ALSA project says is the driver for my soundcard.

lspci -v (Soundcards):

04:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
 Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
 I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 0202
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
 Memory at 501c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

aplay -l

*** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 0: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI DAC/ADC]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 1: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI 2nd DAC]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8768 [C-Media CMI8768], device 2: CMI8738-MC8 [C-Media PCI IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 12 07:36:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-sound-recorder
Package: gnome-media 2.22.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-media
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

as far as i know gnome-sound-recorder is not capable for such a thing.

streamripper is what you're looking for. You can install it from add/remove programs. (try streamtuner or kstreamripper for a frontend)

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

hope this helps.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

marking as invalid as this is not a function of this program.

Can be classified as wishlist, thou.