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Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

I have a fresh re-install of Arch and I can't get flrec hard disk recorder to record sound, the little interface drop down menu won't lit me highlight audio formats like wav, mp3, ogg, etc. I have alsamixer and am able to throw out sound with it; the dependencies, libmad, libvorbis, and sox are installed like http://www.matteolucarelli.net/flrec/index_en.htm says should be, and (I think?) sox is built properly. Apparently sox's settings can be verified with 'sox -h', here's its output:

[wordstrings@DTR-Arch-Linux ~]$ sox -h
sox: error while loading shared libraries: libao.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

,not too pretty, so I tried  http://blog.baboum.be/?p=48 but I copied /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/, (my folder had a .d?). then ran '/sbin/ldconfig' and still, sox -h gave me the same output. Any ideas?

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henk

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

Do you have libao installed?

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

Installing libao was good, I'm now able to highlight wav, mp3, ogg, etc. options in the interface drop down menu, but when I record some sound and then go into my hard drive to hear the file I just made, it either has no sound or makes a horrible screeching noise upon opening. I don't know if this is worth anything, but here's the first couple of lines my command line spits at me when I launch 'sox'

[wordstrings@DTR-Arch-Linux qarecord]$ sox
sox:      SoX v14.4.1

sox FAIL sox: Not enough input filenames specified

Usage summary: [gopts] [[fopts] infile]... [fopts] outfile [effect [effopt]]...

SPECIAL FILENAMES (infile, outfile):
-                        Pipe/redirect input/output (stdin/stdout); may need -t
-d, --default-device     Use the default audio device (where available)

Odd that flrec worked with kernel 3.12.5-1... Any thoughts?

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amvakar

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

If you run 'rec' from a terminal, are the results any different?

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

Exactly the same output. Also; I just tried audacity and it don't record either.

amvakar

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

If you say it worked with an older kernel, I'd suggest something like trying the LTS kernel to see if it is indeed a driver bug.

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

Alright; I'll read up on installing & setting up linux-lts, but lit me add that I am able to run audio (say, a drum machine) through my microphone jack and I am able to hear it coming out of my speakers. So; maybe that driver is ok and I have just missed some other piece of software, and or a setting variable?

henk

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

Did you install flerc from this package?
The page lists fltk as dependecy which I don't see listed in your first post.
I don't implie this will solve it, but it is something to check out.

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

fltk is installed

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

Okay; I went:
pacman -S linux-lts
then:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and rebooted into kernel 3.10.25-1-lts, and tried to record some audio and it didn't work. I am 100% baffled by this problem and need help. Does anyone have any ideas??

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Re: Hard Disk Recorder Won't Record wav, mp3, ogg, etc. [SOLVED]

OMG!!! I fixxed it!!
Hit F4 with alsamixer open in bash and go over to "Item: Digital Source [i2s in]" and just toggle it until you can record. I think changing it from "out something" to "in something" does the trick.