Originally Posted by jefro

It will be digital. The computer can't really record analog like an LP record might record. It records like an MP3.

See the Audacity manual for how to record sound. Your issue is complicated by what may be available in Puppy.

Originally Posted by Mike_Walsh

@ondoho:-

I can tell you for definite now that Tahr does not use PulseAudio. No Puppy, to the best of my knowledge, ever has used it in default condition. The only 'Pups' that do, and which are not 'true' Puppies, are the DebianDogs....and these are based on the Debian LiveCD, customized to look and act like a Puppy. They are more truly Debian than Puppy, as they use Synaptic, apt-get, sudo, and all the rest of the 'traditional' infra-structure..

To call any Pup 'Ubuntu-based' or 'Slackware-based' is only true insofar as they are built using binaries from those distros. It's true that PulseAudio can be installed if the user so wishes, though in Puppy it has a horrible tendency to introduce more problems than it solves. One single situation which, by itself, underlines just how different Puppy is to the majority of 'mainstream' distros that standardized on PulseAudio quite some time ago.

For those situations where PulseAudio is called-for by certain apps, various well-documented 'workarounds' are from time to time employed.....more often than not variants on the 'apulse' libraries.

I agree with you that Jack would do what the OP wants; there are already several packages available for it, compiled to work with the majority of 'standard' Pups.....although there is, of course, quite a learning curve involved in getting the best out of it.


Mike.

Originally Posted by diode84

Mike I will try debiandogs.

Originally Posted by ondoho

diode84, i think you are giving up too fast.
installing jackaudio is a process that requires reading some documentation - did you?
mike_walsh seemed to suggest that this (a documented way to install and use jackaudio) exists for puppy linux.



i don't think this was meant as a recommendation; if puppy linux cannot provide you what you need, you can install virtually any (lightweight) distro.
many people recommend antiX for legacy hardware.