[Alsa-user] Making video from Audacity?

2020-09-09 Thread Alan Corey
Wacky idea probably. But most social media sites won't let you post an mp3 (might be copyrighted) but will let you post videos. So do a video of the Audacity main window with the cursor moving through the waveform as the audio is played. Yes, you could capture a screen area with ffmpeg and try

[Alsa-user] Mystery frying sound

2020-10-02 Thread Alan Corey
I'm on a Raspberry Pi 3B, using HDMI sound fed to a Dell monitor about 10 years old. No internal speaker in it but I use an analog out jack it has and drive a pair of amplified computer speakers. It's getting worse lately. If I unplug the analog input to the powered speakers it goes away. If I

Re: [Alsa-user] New user with an ICUSBAUDIO7D

2020-08-25 Thread Alan Corey
rd is what I want. I'd be more comfortable with numbers in binary or hex than all this parsing of prose. On 7/20/20, Alan Corey wrote: > OK, > arecord -f S16_LE --channels=2 --device="hw:2,0" --rate=44100 junk.wav > does work. It's not pretty, I have to amplify in Audacit

[Alsa-user] Settng (and unsetting) bluealsa as a default audio device

2020-09-27 Thread Alan Corey
I have a pair of bluetooth headphones so I ended up installing bluealsa. From Raspbian debs but it's at https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa I made up this asoundrc file, which works pcm.buds { # works type plug slave { pcm { type bluealsa device FE:46:6D:40:FC:43 # mac from

Re: [Alsa-user] Making video from Audacity?

2020-09-25 Thread Alan Corey
-inspect-1.0: command not found I've never explicitly used gstreamer so I don't know anything about it, just seen the name as a requirement. On 9/25/20, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 10/9/20 12:19 pm, Alan Corey wrote: >> Wacky idea probably. But most social media sites won't let

Re: [Alsa-user] Making video from Audacity?

2020-09-25 Thread Alan Corey
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-tools Makes a difference, I didn't have gst-launch-1.0 or gst-inspect-1.0 On 9/25/20, Alan Corey wrote: > Hmm, this is on a Raspberry Pi under Raspbian. There seems to be a > partial or broken gstreamer. dpgk-query shows > > ii gstreamer0.1

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Alan Corey
Oh, never mind unless you mean 192k samples/sec. On 9/28/20, Alan Corey wrote: > I would say you're in danger of overthinking it, try the defaults first. > > Except when you say 24/192 I'm thinking 192 kbits/sec? My usb sound > cards can only do 48 max. Yours may do better. I was

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Alan Corey
I would say you're in danger of overthinking it, try the defaults first. Except when you say 24/192 I'm thinking 192 kbits/sec? My usb sound cards can only do 48 max. Yours may do better. I was just looking into it for SDR purposes, the tuning range depends on the max sample rate. SPDIF has

Re: [Alsa-user] Mystery frying sound

2020-10-02 Thread Alan Corey
Seems to be coming from Firefox. It crashed, the noise stopped. No idea why or how. On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 11:51 AM Alan Corey wrote: > I'm on a Raspberry Pi 3B, using HDMI sound fed to a Dell monitor about > 10 years old. No internal speaker in it but I use an analog out jack &g

Re: [Alsa-user] Mystery frying sound

2020-10-03 Thread Alan Corey
it even when I wasn't playing a recording. On 10/3/20, Bill Purvis wrote: > On 03/10/2020 13:51, Alan Corey wrote: >> Hmm, I reopened it later and it was quiet.  I tend to leave it open >> for days and have about 20 tabs open.  It has high RAM and CPU usage >> usually, swappi

Re: [Alsa-user] Mystery frying sound

2020-10-03 Thread Alan Corey
AM Patrick May wrote: > Maybe you should tell Firefox to shut the kitchen door to keep the noise > out. Heh! > > On 03/10/2020 00:08, Alan Corey wrote: > > Seems to be coming from Firefox. It crashed, the noise stopped. No > > idea why or how. > > > > On F

Re: [Alsa-user] Making video from Audacity?

2020-09-25 Thread Alan Corey
. No sound that way though, you'd have to mix in the audio file that Audacity is playing/displaying. xwd can do screen dumps of a specific window id, which Audacity would have access to since it owns it. On 9/25/20, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 25/9/20 11:59 pm, Alan Corey wrote: >> I

Re: [Alsa-user] Add audio delay to a channel

2020-10-23 Thread Alan Corey
Try sox, I think it's more versatile than aplay, etc. Huge man page. If you only need to do it once Audacity can almost certainly do it. On 10/23/20, Stuart Naylor wrote: > Does anyone know how to add a delay to an audio channel. > > Or if I break and combine PCMs add a delay to a PCM? > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Add audio delay to a channel

2020-10-23 Thread Alan Corey
t; There are some ladspa effects but trying to work them out now seems near > impossible. > > Stuart > > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows > 10 > > From: Alan Corey<mailto:alan01...@gmail.com> > Sent: 23 October 20

Re: [Alsa-user] New user with an ICUSBAUDIO7D

2020-07-20 Thread Alan Corey
te: > Alan and list, > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:45 AM Alan Corey wrote: > >> When I do >> arecord -f S16_LE --channels=2 --device="hw:2,0" --rate=44100 junk.wav >> >> It doesn't complain but the recording is silence. Something may be >>

[Alsa-user] New user with an ICUSBAUDIO7D

2020-07-19 Thread Alan Corey
I have a StarTech ICUSBAUDIO7D https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Sound/USB-Audio/USB-7-Channel-Audio-Adapter-with-SPDIF~ICUSBAUDIO7D which I want to use the mic input on. Mostly I'm vague on the Alsa syntax for specifying devices and especially subdevices. My alsa-info output is at

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on internal speaker

2020-07-29 Thread Alan Corey
Try using card 1. Look at amixer -c 1 On 7/29/20, Nicolas Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Lenovo P520 workstation with an internal speaker on which I'd like > to play sound. > OS installed is RHEL 7U6 with alsa 1.1.6 > > the internal speaker is enabled in BIOS; however I don't have any sound >

Re: [Alsa-user] New alsa only shows 6 in 6 out where it should be 8/8/

2020-08-01 Thread Alan Corey
Are you looking at the wrong sound card? Start alsamixer then hit F6 to show/select devices. Just a guess. On 7/31/20, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: > Have to upgrade a server. > > On my old server Alsa sees all 8 in and outputs in alsamixer and works > great with my interface. > >

Re: [Alsa-user] New alsa only shows 6 in 6 out where it should be 8/8/

2020-08-01 Thread Alan Corey
Hmm, wonder what the upper limit on the number of devices is On 8/1/20, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: > Of course i did f6 then select card then f5. > I am an experienced user. This is a real problem. > > > On 2020-08-01 12:44, Alan Corey wrote: >> Are you looking at

Re: [Alsa-user] New alsa only shows 6 in 6 out where it should be 8/8/

2020-08-01 Thread Alan Corey
Sent prematurely. I have more devices than will fit the screen so some are hidden at first. You can also poke around in /proc/asound but I don't see that much useful, some redundancy I'm more used to sound under OpenBSD but some is same. On 8/1/20, Alan Corey wrote: > Hmm, wonder w

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-07-29 Thread Alan Corey
When was the last time you rebooted your router? I've seen that solve weird things. On 7/30/20, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Alan, > > > On 2020-07-29 23:58, Alan Corey wrote: >> Could it be because you changed the subject line? It wouldn't >> surprise me if something does a

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-08-02 Thread Alan Corey
charger so it was mostly always up. It was affecting SSL connections to some web sites but not all. On 8/2/20, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Alan, > > > On 2020-07-30 14:44, Alan Corey wrote: >> When was the last time you rebooted your router? I've seen that solve >> weird thin

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-07-29 Thread Alan Corey
Could it be because you changed the subject line? It wouldn't surprise me if something does a hash of the subject. I don't know a lot about secure email with SSL and all that. On 7/29/20, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > I tried to reply to my previous thread with a slightly modified

Re: [Alsa-user] New user with an ICUSBAUDIO7D

2020-07-19 Thread Alan Corey
esn't have access to the mixers, right? On 7/19/20, chris hermansen wrote: > Alan and list > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 10:26 Alan Corey wrote: > >> I have a StarTech ICUSBAUDIO7D >> >> https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Sound/USB-Audio/USB-7-Channel-Audio-Adapter

Re: [Alsa-user] New user with an ICUSBAUDIO7D

2020-07-20 Thread Alan Corey
Format: S16_LE Channels: 2 Endpoint: 5 IN (ASYNC) Rates: 44100, 48000 On 7/20/20, Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user wrote: > Alan Corey wrote: >> arecord -f S16_LE -d 10 -r 16000 --channels=1 --device="hw:2,0" >> /tmp/test-mic.wav >> Recording WAVE '/tmp/test-

Re: [Alsa-user] New user with an ICUSBAUDIO7D

2020-07-20 Thread Alan Corey
ify (40 db) in Audacity there's not really anything there. I'm using a bare electret cartridge with a 3.9 k resistor from 4.2 volts in from a lithium cell, and a 1 MFD coupling cap. I'd expect to see something when I tap on it, but nothing. On 7/20/20, Alan Corey wrote: > Hmm, none of these are 1 c

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to do audio from CGI

2020-12-27 Thread Alan Corey
collection of stuff on Sourceforge eventually. I want to add a stop button and a queue, maybe other things. pkill mpg123 works for now. On 12/27/20, Alan Corey wrote: > Well, don't follow those instructions exactly. I did and broke my > alsa, but I think I've been here before, had to man

Re: [Alsa-user] How to record audio from a live video (youtube via firefox) ?

2020-12-27 Thread Alan Corey
There'[s also youtube-dl, I'm not sure if it would work on live streams. I've used it maybe 20 times, it works about 75% of the time. Apparently there are different protection levels the author can use. The version in the debs is usually too old but you can install the latest with pip. So

Re: [Alsa-user] Making video from Audacity?

2020-12-10 Thread Alan Corey
. On 9/25/20, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 26/9/20 7:35 am, Alan Corey wrote: >> What I had in mind was to make Audacity have a hook to call an >> external program each time it updates the screen. Then call >> something like xwd from the hook and put the frames together later.

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to do audio from CGI

2020-12-26 Thread Alan Corey
license up. On 12/26/20, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 27/12/20 7:33 am, Alan Corey wrote: >> Directory:/data/mp3/Queen/-- Studio Albums --/(1975) A Night at the >> Opera/ >> Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: 11 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.mp3 ... >> [src/libout123/modules/p

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to do audio from CGI

2020-12-26 Thread Alan Corey
Found it, I followed this. https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio#Dynamically_enable.2Fdisable On 12/26/20, Alan Corey wrote: > Uh-oh, I do have PulseAudio installed, didn't intend to. Using a > Daniel Thompson Debian Bullseye on a Piinebook Pro. It's been up less > than 4 days.

[Alsa-user] Trying to do audio from CGI

2020-12-26 Thread Alan Corey
I'm working on this nifty (heh-heh) MP3 jukebox with a CGI front end. Part of it scans a directory tree of artists, albums, songs, puts together a set of web pages someplace else that point to them. I intend to use MPG123 as the actual player called by the CGI program. I call it like cmd:

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to do audio from CGI

2020-12-26 Thread Alan Corey
. On 12/26/20, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 27/12/20 11:04 am, Alan Corey wrote: >> Uh-oh, I do have PulseAudio installed, didn't intend to. Using a >> Daniel Thompson Debian Bullseye on a Piinebook Pro. It's been up less >> than 4 days. Getting PulseAudio and alsa to coex

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable replacement card for Xonar PCI(e) cards

2021-06-14 Thread Alan Corey
I'm not sure about the latency since I can't even measure it but I'd go to USB. Being tied to a PCI(e) slot is an awful nuisance these days. Many machines have multiple USB busses, try putting the sound card on a bus without much else if there's a problem. I'm not sure if your application is

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa plugin data flow for capture

2021-06-03 Thread Alan Corey
This gives me what I expect, I don't know about the fancy stuff. I can call it from a cron job and get auto-named files every half hour, at 44100 sample rate. #!/bin/bash # record 15 seconds under 30 minutes # get the date for the file name adate=`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M"`

Re: [Alsa-user] How to combine two alsa cards as one

2021-05-19 Thread Alan Corey
Would alsaloop be useful? On Wed, May 19, 2021, 4:24 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > it either requires resampling by software, to sync the drifting clocks > of the two cards or sync by hardware. Optimal is word clock, but sync > by S/PDIF might work, too. > > IOW it depends on the used sound

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord can't capture from headset mic

2021-04-27 Thread Alan Corey
I'd guess one of the numbers is off a little. I just got this to work on my Pinebook Pro's internal microphone. First time I'd tried it. Well, it took a few tries adding stuff to correct error messages. arecord -Dhw:0,0 -f S16_LE -c2 -t wav test1.wav Try using a higher card number, then higher

Re: [Alsa-user] s/pdif output not working on Asus Xonar SE card

2021-04-29 Thread Alan Corey
I'd try somethng like amixer -c contents > somefile.txt And then examine somefile.txt carefully. There may be an enable/disable logical switch that nothing else picks up. Because SPDIF isn't that popular it may default to off. I have a Pinebook Pro laptop and without proper software the

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-user] Error: Unable to install hw params

2021-03-22 Thread Alan Corey
This works for me arecord -D hw:0,0 -d 5 -f S16_LE -r 48000 -c 2 test.wav Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo root@pbp:/tmp/snd# ^C Do you really have 6 devices on card 0? And I don't know that I've ever seen a 32 bit wav file, 8 is often enough. Need

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-user] Error: Unable to install hw params

2021-03-22 Thread Alan Corey
rked. I’m not sure where and how > to debug this issue. > > I have a mono mic for recording and it took Mono. I also tried with 8bit > but I get same error. > > Thanks & Regards, > Vijay Rakesh > > > On 22-Mar-2021, at 17:43, Alan Corey wrote: > > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-user] Error: Unable to install hw params

2021-03-22 Thread Alan Corey
0-3 are playback and 4-6 are capture devices. That seems odd. They don't normally mix I think. You have play devices 0-3 and record devices 0-2.They're separate lists. So device 6 is invalid. On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 10:34 AM Alan Corey wrote: > The way I do it is to start with a l

Re: [Alsa-user] Please help me, I am fed up by Debian's lack of clear answers

2021-03-20 Thread Alan Corey
I'd be surprised if there's a driver for a specific card, and "duplex" isn't a term often heard here. I know what you mean I think from ham radio. You want to "monitor" a recording connection I think. You can take an input connection and attach an output to it. Try man alsaloop or maybe

Re: [Alsa-user] Please help me, I am fed up by Debian's lack of clear answers

2021-03-20 Thread Alan Corey
If you want a more pushbutton solution you could call your script from Whiptail or Dialog if that's not available. Writing a real GUI program takes a lot of work but Whiptail can be used from a console or from X, it's designed to be easy. It's what Rasp-config is written in. It's designed for

Re: [Alsa-user] USB sound card with Mic Input

2021-08-03 Thread Alan Corey
I have 3 of these now, about $15 each, reasonably happy with them. Shipping from China is about 2 weeks minimum. lsusb identifies them as "C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device". The last couple have mic jacks.

[Alsa-user] SHARP AQUOS USER MANUAL Pdf Download | ManualsLib

2021-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1263016/Sharp-Aquos.html ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsamixer shows only LED control on Creative USB (SB1090) CA0189

2021-09-22 Thread Alan Corey
I'm not familiar with the card, but try amixer (and it's man page). A Pinebook Pro has similar strangeness but loading an asound.state file and doing alsactl restore gets it working. With this there are multiple controls affecting the main input, they all need to be turned up. Mixer programs

Re: [Alsa-user] Microphone only picking up noise on Acer Chromebook 15 CB3-532 running Debian Testing

2021-11-08 Thread Alan Corey
because no SD card readers, etc. Works in straight Chrome. On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 7:32 AM Alan Corey wrote: > try amixer contents. It's lower level. And hang in there, I have an Acer > Chromebook I'm about to put Bullseye on with crouton. I did make some > simple stereo r

Re: [Alsa-user] Microphone only picking up noise on Acer Chromebook 15 CB3-532 running Debian Testing

2021-11-08 Thread Alan Corey
try amixer contents. It's lower level. And hang in there, I have an Acer Chromebook I'm about to put Bullseye on with crouton. I did make some simple stereo recordings with arecord even before the crouton. On Mon, Nov 8, 2021, 5:58 AM Alexander van der Leun wrote: > Hi all, > > Earlier last

Re: [Alsa-user] Volume Control for Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

2021-12-09 Thread Alan Corey
Try amixer on it and read the man page. The controls may have just not matched anything in alsamixer. On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 4:33 PM Terry O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > > I work at a community radio station, and I just put together a stream > server that runs Liquidsoap. The audio is brought into the

Re: [Alsa-user] plughw working, however raw hw not on MAX98360A

2021-12-06 Thread Alan Corey
Because it's a chromebook chrome os is micromanaging the sound hardware. I think you have to give it permission before it can use it. I hate my chromebook, miss my pinebook. On Mon, Dec 6, 2021, 10:40 PM Dylanger Daly via Alsa-user < alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm

Re: [Alsa-user] any hope for alsamixer controls for AMD RX 5500/5500M GPU?

2022-05-29 Thread Alan Corey
Use amixer, not alsamixer at first. It lets you see devices a different way. I remember at least 1 device where something started numbering at 0 and something else at 1. If it starts at 1, 0 will be invalid, but you can try going the other way. Compare going off the end one way with being just

[Alsa-user] Looking for the magic alsa config file

2023-04-12 Thread Alan Corey
I ran across it last summer, I think it's from Manjaro or Gentoo. You copy it into place and do an alsactl restore, and suddenly sound sources that were buried in the mud can be heard. it even worked on my Pinebook Pro. I'm trying to listen to streamed baseball through Firefox on a Raspberry Pi