Sound-Recorder problems

[David Curry]

Erik P. Olsen wrote:

>>>>Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>            Audacity on this computer acts about the same as your Gnome
>>            sound-recorder, looks like it's trying to record but nothing ...
>>
>>            I think Gnome sound-recorder crashing is a separate problem
>>            here. I would like to remove it and reinstall. Can anyone
>>            tell me which RPM it is in?
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>I do believe the problem is not with gnome-sound-recorder, it is with
>alsa. Try to record from the command line with arecord and you get same
>problem: a recorded file with no sound. If you turn your speaker volume
>to max when you aplay the file you get white noise.
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>
Your note made me aware of arecord and then I discovered aplay through 
using man arecord.

I also get an output file with nothing in it other than white noise.  I 
suspect, though, that whether we use command line arecord or 
gnome-sound-recorder to attempt recording sound we are using the same 
underlying application.  That is, I suspect that gnome-sound-recorder is 
simply a gui frontend for arecord.  That may not be the case, but I 
suspect it.