Public bug reported:
gnome-sound-recorder not working.
Failure was, initially, an attempt to get it recording streaming audio
out of the box.
That having failed, I tried changing its options, and my (alsa) sound
options. Failing that I started looking for help online: the problem
looked horribly complex and the way to a solution looked frought with
difficulty, with a horrendously steep learning curve. It looked like I
might have to learn all about Linux's underlying sound system just to
get the recording device to work. I gave up and went back to my work
without the hope that I might go an as before, doing the recording of
streaming audio that had been an essential part of it.
That was nearly a year ago when I upgraded to Xubuntu, and I have
recovered the same steps again occassionally, just to check it still
wasn't working, and just to check that I've not seen an easy solution
because I'm stupid. I think I have come to understand that I'm not
stupid; I'm a user. And the sound recorder doesn't work.
In the sound-recorder interface, the options are stuck.
'Record from input' offers only one option: Master
'Record as' offers no options: it is blank.
Pressing record does nothing. The sound level indicator is flat.
I have played with some of the settings in the user interface for (Alsa)
sound preferences. But it has acheived nothing. Most of the settings in
the Alsa interface are not written in English anyway. They are written
in some sort of arcane sound architecture language that can be
understood by nobody but sound software experts, programmers and perhaps
linux computer administrators.
The Alsa output options are actually refreshingly comprehensible. They
are written in plain English. But it's input options are gibberish. The
Campaign for Plain English are worth a ganders. The idea of plain
English is not that you have to write everything in goo-goo baby-
language, or spell it out as if it is thought that users are idiots. You
just have to write user interfaces in a way that allows people not
immersed in the arcane world of sound architectures to use them.
This is a bug because it doesn't work and because there is no way for a
sensible user to find any reasonable way of getting it working.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-media 3.4.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 25 10:15:30 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (300 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-media
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (133 days ago)
** Affects: gnome-media (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring
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