Linux Mint Audio-Recorder Output Not Played by Speaker

julianvb · 12-27-2016, 10:57 PM

2016-12-28

I hear no sound when I play back (.wav/.ogg) recordings made by audio-recorder regardless of the audio sound source or audio playback program. I see the recorder registering input sound whether it comes from the CD player or microphone. I can see Clementine or Banshee work properly when I attempt playing the recordings from the command line.

I think I've set up audio-recorder correctly and feel that the output files somehow fail to reach the speaker.

I'll appreciate very much help from anyone.

Julianvb

hydrurga · 12-28-2016, 04:29 AM

Just to see if there is anything seriously awry with your recordings, can you try for one of them:

ffprobe -hide_banner trackfilename

Of course it may just be that you aren't actually recording anything. Does your microphone work with any other applications e.g. Skype?

julianvb · 12-29-2016, 11:33 AM

hygrurga,

The ffprobe command produces "Protocol not found". My microphone works with the arecord audio recorder. You may be right in that I am not recording anything even though audio-recorder produces an output (.ogg or .wav).

Thanks for your input.

Julianvb

frankbell · 01-01-2017, 05:29 PM

If you have not done so, install the Pulse Audio Mixer (pavucontrol) and check the settings. It's in the repos.

julianvb · 01-04-2017, 01:45 PM

Frank,

Thanks very much for your nice suggestion. Yes, I've installed pavucontrol and checked its settings. It works with arecord but not audio-recording. I think I'll just leave audio-recording alone for now since arecord works quite well and meets my needs. Thanks very much again.

Julianvb