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[Tomislav <1230231@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1157654 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1157654

Confirming:

'Record from input' offers only one option: Master
'Record as' offers no options: it is blank.

Although I'm a technical user, I must say that although the above
comments suggest it is a configuration issue, I don't see anything wrong
in sound settings. Whatsmore, it just used to work before I upgraded my
system from 12.04 to 14.04.

In short:

- sound recording should "just work"
- is there a temporary workaround I could use?

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Title:
  gnome-sound-recorder does not record

Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  gnome-sound-recorder not working.

  Failure was, initially, an attempt to get it recording streaming audio
  out of the box.

  That having failed, I tried changing its options, and my (alsa) sound
  options. Failing that I started looking for help online: the problem
  looked horribly complex and the way to a solution looked frought with
  difficulty, with a horrendously steep learning curve. It looked like I
  might have to learn all about Linux's underlying sound system just to
  get the recording device to work. I gave up and went back to my work
  without the hope that I might go an as before, doing the recording of
  streaming audio that had been an essential part of it.

  That was nearly a year ago when I upgraded to Xubuntu, and I have
  recovered the same steps again occassionally, just to check it still
  wasn't working, and just to check that I've not seen an easy solution
  because I'm stupid. I think I have come to understand that I'm not
  stupid; I'm a user. And the sound recorder doesn't work.

  In the sound-recorder interface, the options are stuck.

  'Record from input' offers only one option: Master
  'Record as' offers no options: it is blank.

  Pressing record does nothing. The sound level indicator is flat.

  I have played with some of the settings in the user interface for
  (Alsa) sound preferences. But it has acheived nothing. Most of the
  settings in the Alsa interface are not written in English anyway. They
  are written in some sort of arcane sound architecture language that
  can be understood by nobody but sound software experts, programmers
  and perhaps linux computer administrators.

  The Alsa output options are actually refreshingly comprehensible. They
  are written in plain English. But it's input options are gibberish.
  The Campaign for Plain English are worth a ganders. The idea of plain
  English is not that you have to write everything in goo-goo baby-
  language, or spell it out as if it is thought that users are idiots.
  You just have to write user interfaces in a way that allows people not
  immersed in the arcane world of sound architectures to use them.

  This is a bug because it doesn't work and because there is no way for
  a sensible user to find any reasonable way of getting it working.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: gnome-media 3.4.0-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep 25 10:15:30 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (300 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: gnome-media
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (133 days ago)

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