I have an interesting issue with Ubuntu. I have a laptop that has one jack for line in/microphone and line out/headphones.
This the reason why I bought a spliter like below:
Splits one 4 pines jack into two jacks: micrphone and line out
I have an external studio microphone and headphones with the micrphone.
Case 1 (Working)
If I connect the micrphone of headphones to spliter that is inserted into my laptop, I can record my micrphone.
HEADPHONES MIC ----+
|
+------- LAPTOP
|
HEADPHONES OUTPUT -+
Case 2 (NOT Working)
If I connect another an external hardware (for example a piano) to the splitter, I cannot record anything... This is the issue. How can Ubuntu recognize if there is a headphones micrphone or an external hardware that is NOT a headphones micrphone?
PIANO ------------+
|
+------- LAPTOP
|
HEADPHONES OUTPUT -+
...and the question is how to fix this? I want to record my piano using my laptop: through line in.
Would be the splitter an cause?
Do I really need a hardware that I don't have (like an USB recorder)?
Update: tested on Windows 8 on same laptop. It works properly... (Un)Fortunately, I am an Ubuntu user, so I will not go back to the Windows world... Still searching for a solution on Ubuntu.
My laptop model is Samsung NP300E5V-S01RO
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Update 2: Using alsamixer
I managed to listen only the piano sounds, without other microphone sounds. This is how the current alsamixer configuration looks:
The information about my settings can be found here.
I still cannot select in Audacity (or other recording software) the recording device. It records from the internal microphone.
Update 3:
pactl list sources
outputs this in the Ports
section:
Case 1
Piano is connected:
analog-input-microphone-internal: Internal Microphone (priority: 8900)
analog-input-microphone: Microphone (priority: 8700, not available)
Case 2
An external microphone is connected:
analog-input-microphone-internal: Internal Microphone (priority: 8900, not available)
analog-input-microphone: Microphone (priority: 8700, available)