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danger will robenson!! -never- connect line level to the mic input...
you can damage the soundcard the sound source or both... the mic
connector outputs ~2volts to drive an electret mic and the audio
portion is designed to be a bit more sensitive to the incoming
audio...

On 26/03/07, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> A lot haw bin posted over the week end. Men whole I have had time to
> try out something and got in to problem. I have sox with rec and I
> wanted to test with a line in from a radio. After trying different
> things with aumix and the line I got the sound from the radio coming
> out of the laptop speakers. It was only when I got the wire in line in
> that I would work, not with the mic-in-socket. Now I got the sound
> coming out of the laptop speaker I thought it would definitely work to
> record the incoming sound with
>
> rec hello.wav
>
> But it would not. The file was made but there is noting on it. No
> sound. I have tested that I am able to play other wav files but
> hello.wav is soundless. I´d like to try David's (god to hear from you
> aging David)

make sure line-in is set to record and not just play... (press
spacebar when over the 'line-in' mixer setting)

> cat /dev/dsp >recording.au
>
> (I wonder how you stop this?)

ctrl+c ?

> but I can´t test that here on my work.
>
> /Mikkel


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