Hi all,
A bug was recently filed in Ubuntu from a user who wants to record audio input 
from the audio CD connection on his motherboard, and the user couldn't find the 
CD input as an option in the GNOME volume control preferences. Of course I 
replied back about using a CD ripping app to copy audio CD tracks, however the 
user was aware of that. The use case here is someone who has a video capture 
card, that uses an internal analog audio connection via a legacy CD audio cable 
for audio input.

Whilst looking into addressing this, I noticed a comment in 
src/modules/alsa/mixer/paths/analog-input.conf.common, that clearly states we 
don't want to wrap the CD mixer element. I personally think that this element 
should be exposed for such uses, but I would like to hear other people's views 
about this. So far as I understand it, most video capture cards these days have 
their own audio input hardware on board, which is generally recognised and used 
by ALSA, thereby making it available to pulse. On the other hand, I myself 
still own such a capture card with analog audio output. I don't use this card 
any more, but if I was in the same position, I would have to jump through hoops 
using alsamixer to record from this device.

Thoughts welcome.

Luke
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