Capture sound from soundcard - tutorials are close but not quite
 

Hello,

I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibid running kernel 2.6.27-14-generic on a Toshiba laptop. I'm trying to capture sound from a radio broadcast from NHK here in Japan and I can't quite get it. The broadcast is initiated from a Flash object so I can't use streamripper.

I can open PulseAudio volume controls in Gnome and I switched my input source in PulseAudio Device Controller to 'Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front:0 (CONEXANT Analog) via DMA' and I can see the sound output in Gnome. When I try to record from arecord I'm still getting a blank file with no sound.

How do I tell arecord how to use the monitor driver?

Thanks

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1059866

One person mentions a simple solution... Route autio out to autio in, physical route. Simple yet...Well yet ugly.

If I understand well, you have sound on Line In, and you want to capture that to a file, correct?

If you are using arecord, issue these commands first:

-c 0 is your first audio card, -c 1 the second one, etc.

After you issued these commands, do:

(You might want to do arecord -L to list your audio devices, I always forget how to address them, but plughw is generic)

If you see mainly '{' and '|' characters on your screen, you are NOT capturing any sound. But that is unlikely.

If you see the screen full of garbage, you are capturing.

So choose a sample rate, resolution and pipe the output in your file:
Not that these files are uncompressed and grow large quickly.

jlinkels