Haven’t been able to get Audacity working since 10.3 - tried tons of things - what the heck’s up with that??? It just flatlines no matter what I select as an input source… Currently 11.1 x86_64
Patti,
11.1 eh?!
Now the penny is dropping… I was advising you about your issue with desktop effects and you were confused by my detail. That you are using 11.1 explains matters.
I never use Audacity. I’m KDE and use amarok.
Recent ventures to Gnome has me using Banshee.
Both work well.
I tend to use what works.
Oops - sorry - the other part of that was that i couldn’t get 11.2 to even boot the installer on my ProBook 4510s (even with NOAPIC, ACPI=OFF, etc.) - 11.3 milestones also failed, but at least I could fill out a bug report for 11.3 since it’s not yet released…
How do you record music that’s playing on Amarok? I really like Amarok - better than any windows streamer - but Audacity has ever only worked consistently for me in XP. I think for the last decade, there has been a lot of strife (?) in the Linux sound architecture community as to what to use… pulse, also, jack, … and that has failed to resolve as soon as I had hoped.
Record music that is playing.
I have to assume you mean a stream.
Because there would be no point recording audio you are playing from your HD.
I don’t know that amarok can do that.
So you have Audacity installed…
Please tell us the result of
rpm -qi audacity
zypper lr -d
Very weird! Now Amarok can’t play anything (even mp3’s) - well, the VU meters dance, but no sound. The same mp3s play well through MPlayer and KMPlayer.
Yep, stream. For decades I’d recorded random things off the radio - now one does this with laptops on internet radio. Back then before corporations owned the media across-the-board, they screamed about reel-to-reel, then 8-tracks, then cassettes but nobody heard them outside of the boardroom (and they were wrong anyway). They’ll never replace albums, errr, CD’s, but home recordings fill a gap…
patti@patti-probook:~> rpm -qi audacity
Name : audacity Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.3.12 Vendor: PackMan :: Startseite
Release : 2.pm.2.3 Build Date: Tue 27 Apr 2010 04:35:53 PM PDT
Install Date: Tue 11 May 2010 07:28:37 AM PDT Build Host: nott
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Editors and Convertors Source RPM: audacity-1.3.12-2.pm.2.3.src.rpm
Size : 14362511 License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 27 Apr 2010 04:36:02 PM PDT, Key ID f899f20d9a795806
Packager : detrei@links2linux.de
URL : Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
Summary : A Free, Cross-Platform Digital Audio Editor
Description :
Audacity is a program that manipulates digital audio wave forms. In
addition to recording sounds directly from within the program, it
imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP,
and Ogg Vorbis. With Audacity, you can edit wave data larger than the
physical memory size of your computer.
Distribution: main_pm / openSUSE_11.1
patti@patti-probook:~> zypper lr -d
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
—±--------------------------------------±--------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1/ | Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1/ | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1 |
2 | OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/ | OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/ | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1 |
3 | madwifi-project.org/suse/11.1/ | madwifi-project.org/suse/11.1/ | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.1 |
4 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
5 | packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.1/ | packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.1/ | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.1 |
6 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
7 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss |
8 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
9 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
10 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.1 |
11 | science/openSUSE_11.1/ | science/openSUSE_11.1/ | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/science/openSUSE_11.1 |
12 | videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/ | videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/ | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/ |
patti@patti-probook:~>
I forgot to say HAPPY 4TH!!
It’s the 5th here now but hope you enjoyed your holiday.
You should remove repo 12
Change the priority of repo 5 from 99 to 10
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Now, we’ll try something, but it may spit dummy so be patient, you may have to quit it. We are trying to make sure all your multimedia is from packman.
Do this in a su terminal:
zypper dup -r 5