USB Audio

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:47:19PM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
> It looks like there aren't any Linux audio buffs in this city or I just 
> haven't caught their eyes.
> 
> Arecord does see my device,  the soundcard is listed as Card0  and my device 
> as Card1.  As far as I can tell ALSA is all about Soundcards.   To use 
> arecord one uses alsamixer, but alsa mixer is about the soundcard inputs and 
> outputs.  I don't see any way of telling it about Card1 or my sound driver as 
> a source.  
> 
> The site linux-sound.org has a wealth of information but I just haven't found 
> anything that answers my problem.  The answer may be somewhere in ALSA, I'll 
> keep looking.  Sox and Audacity could also do what I want if I could only 
> tell them about this oddball audio source.
> 
> Looks like I use Windows to get my L.P's and reel to reel tapes onto the 
> computer.  Drat.

alsamixer -c 1 (that is tell it to use card 1)

arecord -l (list available devices)
arecord -D <devicefromlist>

Hope that helps.

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