From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 16: 3:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A1737B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0C343EC2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18UFJT-000GzW-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:03:47 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:03:47 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...] Message-ID: <20030103000347.GI5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200301021416.04943.joe@dubium.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301021416.04943.joe@dubium.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:16:04PM -0800, joe wrote: > On January 2, 2003 09:40 am, John Bleichert wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > ,snip> > > > > > I use Audacity for all of my mixing. I do a lot of the individual > > me too. except my requirement is to record audio tapes to mp3. > > > In FreeBSD Audacity is the best IMHO. Another great one (much more > > The one missing piece of my knowledge and understanding is to actually > do the recording. > > I've hooked up the tape card to the line-in of the sound but I can't > get the sound to be recorded. I am getting sound as I can listen to > the tapes on the computer. > > What device do I specify for the recording in from the line-in of the > sound card using audacity? > > When I use the default /dev/dsp nothing is captured. > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Sotham > ------------------------------------------------------------- What are your mixer settings? Do you have the LineIn configured to record or just for playback? Check out the man page for mixer(8) on how to set an input for recording. There are also quite a few ports for various mixer interfaces in /usr/ports/audio. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message