Comment 3 for bug 209103

Without going into tech stuff(newbie)I have struggled for weeks on my vista laptop and my xp pc. I am running wubi exe on both. The machines have entirely different sound cards but the problems are identical. I think I have read and tried every suggestion on Ubutntu forum and here. I just cannot record anything on any recording prog including Sound Recorder. I have installed and uninstalled pulseaudio and alsa,religiously switched back and forth with every combination in sound settings in every conceivable way and still zero recording. The strange thing is I can do what the hell I want on the playback side and get perfect sound on all applications. I do a lot of editing and recording for local radio and i am forced to go back to programmes for editing and recording in Msoft where things are a lot slower and for me sound quality is poorer . Has anyone got a straight forward fix because I have not found one yet?! . One thing the experience has taught me so far is that I can now use with some confidence many of ,what appears to be for a windows user,the idiosyncrasies to be found in Ubuntu. I hope I do not offend by my remark because I like loinux so much I really want to stick with it but time is not on my side unfortunately. I just get the feeling that there are a lot more people out there who are suffering the same problem and more than the forums indicate. Help! Audacious I would love to use but I frustratingly can't.