It was added as a way to test the feature. This method to enable audio capture won’t be needed for long thankfully. I did have to choose the right audio input from the many listed options, but once I found the correct one - sysdefault: Mic 0 worked for my Samson USB mic - I was able to record and save audio. I tested this with Audacity, an open-source audio application I’ve used for podcasting since 2006.

Once you do, Linux apps will have access to any internal or external microphones. Then restart termina with this command: vmc start termina –enable-audio-capture. Next type the vmc stop termina command to shut down any currently running Termina VM. This should open up what’s known as the crosh shell. To enable audio capture through either your Chromebook’s built-in microphone or a USB mic, go in the Chrome browser and press the ctrl – alt – T keyboard combination. Instead, you have to start Termina, the virtual machine where your Linux containers run on a Chromebook, with a command line flag. Normally experimental new features are hidden behind a Chrome OS flag but audio capture hasn’t even reached that stage yet. You can actually use it now on the Chrome OS 79 Stable Channel that launched a few weeks ago.

I’m talking about audio capture in a Linux container on Chromebooks. At long last one of the major features I’ve missed from Linux on Chrome OS has arrived.

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