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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Recording from line-in without Audacity

I've got a bunch of vinyls I'd like to start recording to my computer, and it seems that the best way to do it is through Audacity.  But I seem to have the problem where PortMixer isn't included in the version of Audacity that I have, so I can't record from line-in.  I've tried other versions of 1.3.x, but I can't get any of them to compile.  Apparently 1.2.x would work, but it uses OSS and I have ALSA.  So is there any other program that I can use to record from line-in?

Thanks!

ploub

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 132

Re: Recording from line-in without Audacity

Try gramofile. It's in the aur.

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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Re: Recording from line-in without Audacity

Thanks, but when I tried that I hit the "Start Recording" button and it just returned to the main menu.  I'm assuming its because I need xmixer installed.  I tried finding it on Google, and apparently xmixer is the same as xmix, but I could only find that on Freshmeat and it seems to be broken (when you run it it just spits out some errors and quits).

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Recording from line-in without Audacity

Perhaps this script will be what you need:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=325491

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Re: Recording from line-in without Audacity

Ah, that doesn't work either - it freezes when it gets to the mp3splt part.