Audacity Pulseaudio



Sometimes I prefer to hear the live version of the music (which I thought better than the recording version) that available on YouTube. I have experienced recording from YouTube with Audacity, but using Ubuntu 7, very-very long time ago. When I tried to record again, I found some diffculties that no sound recorded to the Audacity.

The page from Audacity Team said that I need to turn my ‘Input Device’ to ‘Stereo Mix’, but there is no ‘Stereo Mix’ option in my Audacity, it’s on Windows. My list of ‘Input Device’ is:

  • HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog (hw0,0)
  • default: Rear Mic:0
  • default: Front Mic:0
  • default: Line:0
  • default: Rear Mic:1
  • default: Front Mic:1
  • default: Line:1

In audacity's preferences it only says ALSA in the top dropdown, im not sure if that is supposed to be like that or if it said PulseAudio before. There aren't even all my devices in the playback tab. Same goes for the recording device selection, but the loopback device I need to record from is there, so that works. The mic is not available for selection in Audacity (I tried all options, launched Audacity after mic was connected). It works oob in Windows 10 in Audacity. It works oob in Windows 10 in Audacity. I am using Audacity 2.1.2, PulseAudio 8 (Kubuntu 16.04).

Audacity Pulseaudio

There is nothing on the list that can record from the stream, all option is silent.

I followed the suggestion from Linuxer to configure the ALSA Mixer using command

Audacity No Pulseaudio


Then I need to activate the capture device, done. After I tried to record again but the results are:

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 02:08 +0200, Igor Chernenko wrote: Hi Edgar! I believe you know exactly why and for whom, I posted this message to Nyquist forum. And, what is more, Audacity is actually unusable with PulseAudio. It is true for old boxes, and for dual cores. This usually has less latency than Audacity's Software Playthrough. Linux: Most modern Linux systems use ALSA and Pulse Audio with no software playthrough module installed. ALSA has the optional alsaloop playthrough module in alsa-utils and PulseAudio has an optional module-loopback, but these modules may have noticeable latency and audio breakup. Apr 11, 2020 Audacity is open-source software, which allows you to record and edit audios and tracks for free. It is a very useful tool for musicians. They can easily record, mix, edit, and split their audio using this software. ASIO is an interface for audio software exclusive to Windows.

  • HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog (hw0,0)
    • Nothing Happened
  • default: Rear Mic:0
    • Nothing Happened
  • default: Front Mic:0
    • Noise from my Mic but the stream recorded a bit in the background
  • default: Line:0
    • Nothing Happened

I was getting a little mad. The thread from Ubuntu Forum suggested me to use Ardour. I went to Ubuntu Software Center and installed Ardour, but I want to give one more shot to Audacity. From the Stream Recorder Forum it was suggested to install PulseAudio Volume Control, I installed the volume control and got the ‘Input Device’ option in Audacity had more options:

  • HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog (hw0,0)
  • pulse: Rear Mic:0
  • pulse: Front Mic:0
  • pulse: Line:0
  • pulse: Rear Mic:1
  • pulse: Front Mic:1
  • pulse: Line:1
  • default: Rear Mic:0
  • default: Front Mic:0
  • default: Line:0
  • default: Rear Mic:1
  • default: Front Mic:1
  • default: Line:1

Audacity Pulseaudio No Sound

Then I followed the instructions to change the ‘Output Device’ and ‘Input Device’ option in Audacity to ‘Pulse’, let the PulseAudio Volume Control open when recording the stream with Audacity. Still, nothing changed. Then I found the page from Audacity Team stated that I need to configure the PulseAudio Volume Control. There are some configurations that I did:

  1. Go to ‘Input Devices’ Tab, in the ‘Internal Audio Analog Stereo’ option, look for ‘Port’ tab
  2. There are options for ‘Front Microphone’, ‘Rear Microphone’, and ‘Line In’. set all of those volume to silence, I can let it go, but just for precautions if the microphones’ noise disturb the recording
  3. Scroll down and there is ‘Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo’, to make sure the stream can be recorded, play the stream, watch the bar below the volume adjustment, if moves then the recording process can be done
  4. Go to ‘Recording’ Tab, there is notification that no plug-in doing the recording, don’t worry
  5. Play the stream, push the record button on the Audacity, then back to the PulseAudio Volume Control, on the ‘Recording’ tab, it can be seen that now there’s an option for Audacity recording
  6. At the ‘ALSA plug-in [audacity]: ALSA Capture from‘ option, change the ‘Internal Audio Analog Stereo’ to ‘Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo’
  7. The Audacity could record the stream by now

PulseAudio/Examples - ArchWiki

Happy recording!

Audacity Pulseaudio Record

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Anton Hermansyah