[Icecast] Newbie with problems on Debian Sarge

[William McKeehan]

Well, I did have some things messed up with my alsa mixer settings, but with
your example commands below for using arecord and aplay, I was able to get
them correct, so now arecord will record from the microphone and aplay plays
the recorded file...but...still nothing when I start ices2.

Do yave any next steps for debugging?

I really appreciate the help!

On Sun, June 12, 2005 5:42 pm, Geoff Shang said:
> William McKeehan wrote:
>
>> I have my audio working with ALSA - microphone in plays through my audio
>> out.
>
> This means that your microphone is unmuted in playback, but this does not
> mean that it is "captured" for recording or that some other master record
> level is not set at 0.
>
> First,try recording and seeing if you can hear anything.
>
> arecord filename.wav (the quality won't be high but that's not important)
>
> Then play it back.
>
> aplay filename.wav
>
> If you can hear your microphone then the problem isn't occuring before
> Ices.
>
> If you hear silence, do the following:
>
> 1.  Load up alsamixer.
>
> 2.  Cursor across to Mic and check that it is captured.  If it isn't, press
> space and it should capture.
>
> 3.  If you're using something like an SBLive, you may well need to turn up
> some kind of master record volume.  I have an SBLive and on my card, the
> control is called Capture and I currently have it at about 40%.  Where you
> should have it will depend on the strength of your input signal.
>
> If you change anything and it subsequently works, don't forget to run
> "alsactl store" as root to save your settings so they are reloaded next
> time you boot the system.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Geoff.
>
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