=== Terje:===== 1) My Behringer UFO202 USB Audio interface has arrived. As a first and easy test I have connected it to a PC USB port, the RCA IN L+R to RCA OUT on a Toshiba videoplayer playing an Audio music CD, and third connected earphones to UFO202. 2) Yes, I hear the playback sound in the earphones, however no sound if I plugin the earphones to the normal rear PC backplane's Jack, and no sound in the corresponding speakers. Correct so far? =========== That is normal. By default, incoming (line) signals are not rerouted to outputs, some software must do that. === Terje:===== 3) pavucontrol Configuration | *PCM2902 Audio Codec* Profile: Analog Stereo Duplex * Input Devices | Hardware devices | Hardware Input Devices: PCM2902 Audio Codec Analog Stereo, Port: Analog Input response Built-in Audio Analog stereo, Port: Rear Microphone (plugged in) Respons!? ================ Looks good. Here I have for the non-PCM2902 device (HD audio controller analog stereo) port Line 1, and plugged in. === Terje:===== 4) UFO202 is discovered on my Leap 15.3 as *Device 4 **Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec* as follows: ... ================ Looks good, same here, except here the video HDMI is the first device and the motherboard HD audio the second. PCM2902 is third also. === Terje:===== pacmd list-sources | egrep '^\s+name: .*alsa_input' ================ Output looks fine. === Terje:===== 5) I am unsure how to practically go from here to record the Audio music files. ================ 8) Which tab/buttons for input in Audiacity (possibly tape/noise filters) - I could not find the PCM2902 input or see any sound response here I suggest to try Audacity first. In Edit->Preferences->Devices, Host Alsa, playback device pulse, recording default (or pulse), 1 or 2 channels as desired. Edit->Preferences->Recording, record on new track (each time you start a recoding you get a new audio track). Then, on the main menu, click on the filed that says "click to start monitoring", this will send input to output, so if your output device is line out it will come out there. For recording, the red button starts recording, the black square button stops. The advantage of using Pulse is that pavucontrol will show recoding applications, you should also see the signal coming in when an application is recording (has opened the input channel). This can be seen on the Input Devices tab. You don't see the device as such, it is "abstracted" by both Also and then PulseAudio. === Terje:===== 9) Would it be reasonable to record and archive in lossless FLAC format and afterwards convert with ffmpeg? to smaller files format of good quality, typical MP3 at 320 kbps (for car usb player) and MP4A for home HiFi? ================ FLAC is very good, it itself is lossless. Audacity can export to a variety of formats (File->Export), I usually use mp3 or wav. Note that if you do a lot of editing on a recording is it better to save the project, that avoid converting back-and-forth between flac and the interanl Audacity 32 bit floats. Audicity is a good editor, you record first, save the original recoding, then apply filters/effects/cuts etc . Like CinGG, keep the original intact. Offhand, I'd say you must have extremely good hearing to hear differences between MP3 320kbps and the original. For cars, I myself would not go above 128 kbps. MP3 at 320 kbps is much better than most home HiFi. And if the source is not digital, (but tape or cassette), 128 kpbs MP3 is already much better than the source material. ========= In CinGG, you could try Alsa, CinGG shows the device directly. Preferences->recording tab. Record driver Also, then you get in the Devoce dropdown box multiple devices, look for something like USB Audio. If you have webcam also connected, you are likely to see two of them. I did have some problems there, my settings are Record driver "Pulse Audio" , leave the device at default. Then pavucontrol determines which devices. I am not sure if the sample rate is set corretly for the device by CinGG, if it does not work or you get lots of errors, try 44100 instead of 4800, the UFO202 supports both. Good luck, Mat