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gnome-media package

Sound recorder disables the capture device after a second recording

Bug #39119 reported by Aaron Whitehouse
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GNOME media utilities
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gnome-media (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Dapper
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Bug Description

This sounds rediculous but I am sitting here with alsamixer and sound-recorder open repeating this over and over.

1) open alsamixer in a terminal window
2) tab so that you are on the capture settings
3) leave the window so that you can see the device named 'capture'. It should be red to show that it is an active capturing source
4) open sound-recorder
5) record a track
6) stop
7) playback the track (this isn't necessary I don't think)
8) hit record - note that the red symbol showing that capture is active has disappeared (if it didn't do it, stop and record again)

I wanted to send you a screen video because it seems so odd, but couldn't get Istanbul working well enough.

Obviously at this point the mic doesn't work system-wide.

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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

This still occurs on Dapper Beta; installed fresh with no Home directory. I have fully updated to 26 April.

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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

I thought that the package was sound-recorder (given that is the name in the about box) but that seems to be a different product that I don't have installed. It seems that "sound-recorder" is actually "gnome-media".

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Eric Feliksik (milouny) wrote :

Confirmed. The workaround is of course easy but clumsy (re-enable recording again and again), but it takes a while before you even realize what's going on, if you figure it out at all.

This bug renders the soundrecorder quite useless, at least for human beings, so I'm bumping the severity a bit.

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for forwarding the bug upstream

Changed in gnome-media:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Is this the same bug? If not I'll file is seperately:

If I select 'capture' in the drop down menu, as soon as I click record it resets 'input from' to microphone - which does nothing on my system. This bug is currently present in all 'Record as:' options except 'Voice Lossless (WAV audio)'

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Duncan, which bug is the same as which one?

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Grzegorz (grzegorzborkowski) wrote :

Yesterday I downloaded Dapper final release. I got exactly the same problem - after each recoreding "capture" is disabled automatically and I must reenable it manually. Horrible. Is there some fix for this?

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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

Confirmed. The error still occurs in Dapper Final.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug is supposed to be fixed with gnome-media 2.14.2 which is available from dapper-updates, could anybody confirm that the fix works fine? It seems to work fine with gnome-media 2.14.2 on my edgy desktop

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

Dapper-updates has been returning a zip error message since you asked for this, but it seems fixed for me anyway. I'm using gnome-media 2.14.2-0ubuntu1. Thanks for your help :).

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

can someone else using dapper confirm this?

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Grzegorz (grzegorzborkowski) wrote :

I switched to Edgy, besides my sound-recorder is broken for long time (I have no time to try to fix it - Linux sound system is magic for me), so unfortunately I can not verify it.

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sgtmattbaker (presbp) wrote :

I am in Edgy Eft final and sound-recorder is still auto-muting after first record. Yes it is completely worthless.

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Changed in gnome-media:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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