Audacity Pulseaudio
In audacity's preferences it only says ALSA in the top dropdown, im not sure if that is supposed to be like that or if it said PulseAudio before. There aren't even all my devices in the playback tab. Same goes for the recording device selection, but the loopback device I need to record from is there, so that works. PulseAudiois a sound server providing professional audio features such as mixing and input/output routing. It is the default audio device on many Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mintand many Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions. PulseAudio operates as a proxy between sound applications and the audio hardware (usually via ALSA). Welcome to Audacity Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing. Audacity is available for Windows®, Mac®, GNU/Linux® and other operating systems. Check our feature list, Wiki and Forum. Download Audacity 2.1.3 Mar 17th, 2017: Audacity. Setting PulseAudio Volume Control to capture from the Monitor device lets Audacity record computer playback when its input device is set to pulse. If not already installed, add PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) to your system. This is usually available in the distribution's repository. Ensure that PulseAudio is running.
Sometimes I prefer to hear the live version of the music (which I thought better than the recording version) that available on YouTube. I have experienced recording from YouTube with Audacity, but using Ubuntu 7, very-very long time ago. When I tried to record again, I found some diffculties that no sound recorded to the Audacity.
The page from Audacity Team said that I need to turn my ‘Input Device’ to ‘Stereo Mix’, but there is no ‘Stereo Mix’ option in my Audacity, it’s on Windows. My list of ‘Input Device’ is:
- HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog (hw0,0)
- default: Rear Mic:0
- default: Front Mic:0
- default: Line:0
- default: Rear Mic:1
- default: Front Mic:1
- default: Line:1
Audacity Pulseaudio
There is nothing on the list that can record from the stream, all option is silent.
I followed the suggestion from Linuxer to configure the ALSA Mixer using command
Then I need to activate the capture device, done. After I tried to record again but the results are:
Audacity No Pulseaudio
- HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog (hw0,0)
- Nothing Happened
- default: Rear Mic:0
- Nothing Happened
- default: Front Mic:0
- Noise from my Mic but the stream recorded a bit in the background
- default: Line:0
- Nothing Happened
Audacity Pulseaudio Problems
I was getting a little mad. The thread from Ubuntu Forum suggested me to use Ardour. I went to Ubuntu Software Center and installed Ardour, but I want to give one more shot to Audacity. From the Stream Recorder Forum it was suggested to install PulseAudio Volume Control, I installed the volume control and got the ‘Input Device’ option in Audacity had more options:
- HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog (hw0,0)
- pulse: Rear Mic:0
- pulse: Front Mic:0
- pulse: Line:0
- pulse: Rear Mic:1
- pulse: Front Mic:1
- pulse: Line:1
- default: Rear Mic:0
- default: Front Mic:0
- default: Line:0
- default: Rear Mic:1
- default: Front Mic:1
- default: Line:1
Then I followed the instructions to change the ‘Output Device’ and ‘Input Device’ option in Audacity to ‘Pulse’, let the PulseAudio Volume Control open when recording the stream with Audacity. Still, nothing changed. Then I found the page from Audacity Team stated that I need to configure the PulseAudio Volume Control. There are some configurations that I did:
- Go to ‘Input Devices’ Tab, in the ‘Internal Audio Analog Stereo’ option, look for ‘Port’ tab
- There are options for ‘Front Microphone’, ‘Rear Microphone’, and ‘Line In’. set all of those volume to silence, I can let it go, but just for precautions if the microphones’ noise disturb the recording
- Scroll down and there is ‘Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo’, to make sure the stream can be recorded, play the stream, watch the bar below the volume adjustment, if moves then the recording process can be done
- Go to ‘Recording’ Tab, there is notification that no plug-in doing the recording, don’t worry
- Play the stream, push the record button on the Audacity, then back to the PulseAudio Volume Control, on the ‘Recording’ tab, it can be seen that now there’s an option for Audacity recording
- At the ‘ALSA plug-in [audacity]: ALSA Capture from‘ option, change the ‘Internal Audio Analog Stereo’ to ‘Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo’
- The Audacity could record the stream by now
Happy recording!
Audacity Pulseaudio Alsa
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Anton Hermansyah