Foiled Again!

[cousinlucky]

It has been a number of years since I recorded anything on my computer using a microphone. I have used wave in the past to do this. I recorded four hours of stuff yesterday but I could not play it today. I just remembered i used my suse 10 os the last time I did this but now I use ubuntu 8.04 and I can not hear the file. Oh boy, More gray hair!!

[Dapper Dan]

Hi cousinlucky. Have you tried Audacity? It will export to whatever format you want plus it makes a "project" file that is good for back up.

apt-get install audacity

[jayd512]

Hi Lucky!
Just a thought here.
On whatever program you used to record with, did you take a look at the Preferences for it?
Sometimes the volume control for your microphone could be set quite low by default, making it hard to pick up on anything.

[cousinlucky]

Audacity looks like an alien spaceship control panel ( way over my head )!! i used the gnome sound recorder in ubuntu which I have now learned has settings other than the default. I had it set on microphone and capture which were the wrong settings I guess.

[Dapper Dan]

Looks can be deceiving. We use it because it is a very simple to use sound editor. You should give it a try.

[cousinlucky]

After tinkering around with the sound recorder I discovered that the dust build-up in the microphone
connection was my problem.

[jayd512]

Don't ya just love it when it's the little things in life that give you the headaches?

Really, though... I'm glad it was something that was easy to fix, Lucky.

[cousinlucky]

It's not the first time that dust in my computer has made a fool out me JD. A few years ago I was all upset that
my computer stated that an on-disk disk was blank. I found our later, after using a laser lens cleaner, that it was
my brain that was blank and not the disk. Live and learn!!

[cousinlucky]

OK Dan I took your advice and all of those icons on Audacity have little hints over them and i used Audacity to make a recording. I could not put it on a CD however.
I need to find out about audio formats and what uses what! More reading headaches!!