I have moved to Kubuntu from another distro and have had a lot of trouble initially finding how to listen to bbc radio and then at the same time, record the stream.
BBC uses real audio streams and the obvious way to listen is to use realplayer (currently version 10). Using Kubuntu, I had a problem installing that program in kubuntu - an error message said it would conflict with rvplayer, (which I could not find in my system). Maybe I was looking in the wrong place. Anyway I then installed realplayer from its binary downloaded from the Real site. However I could not get any method of recording the stream to work, even trying most things in sight, one at a time, programs and packages that seemed relevant.
Audacity worked on a laptop I had for such recording, but now gave I/O layer errors when used in other machines I have - something to do with alsa and the audio card and audacity not being able to get to the soundcard at the same time as the realplayer I think.
Previos distro was ok when I used 'krecord', but however hard I looked I could not find this in the add/remove programs lists. After more persistance I did find krecord in the system>adept package manager>krecord.
It was available as a package, not a program. (!!)
And it works!
Krecord also provides a recording level indication and the mixer can be run - both good for initial setting up the conditions. I could not find a record level meter gui in gnome, even though it appeared to be installed as a program.
One note - I also tried ubuntu (gnome) for bbc recording, again with no success for my situation, except with krecord.
I use both kde and gnome, so my latest approach has been to now first install ubuntu and update it, then install kubuntu-desktop, a big download activity.
Interestingly, realplayer installed easily in ubuntu (add/remove programs), and was still available in kubuntu later. So in this case I did not have to go to the Real site and download the binary.
BBC uses real audio streams and the obvious way to listen is to use realplayer (currently version 10). Using Kubuntu, I had a problem installing that program in kubuntu - an error message said it would conflict with rvplayer, (which I could not find in my system). Maybe I was looking in the wrong place. Anyway I then installed realplayer from its binary downloaded from the Real site. However I could not get any method of recording the stream to work, even trying most things in sight, one at a time, programs and packages that seemed relevant.
Audacity worked on a laptop I had for such recording, but now gave I/O layer errors when used in other machines I have - something to do with alsa and the audio card and audacity not being able to get to the soundcard at the same time as the realplayer I think.
Previos distro was ok when I used 'krecord', but however hard I looked I could not find this in the add/remove programs lists. After more persistance I did find krecord in the system>adept package manager>krecord.
It was available as a package, not a program. (!!)
And it works!
Krecord also provides a recording level indication and the mixer can be run - both good for initial setting up the conditions. I could not find a record level meter gui in gnome, even though it appeared to be installed as a program.
One note - I also tried ubuntu (gnome) for bbc recording, again with no success for my situation, except with krecord.
I use both kde and gnome, so my latest approach has been to now first install ubuntu and update it, then install kubuntu-desktop, a big download activity.
Interestingly, realplayer installed easily in ubuntu (add/remove programs), and was still available in kubuntu later. So in this case I did not have to go to the Real site and download the binary.
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