Using gnome-sound-recorder 2.22.0:
I press Record (I speak a bit).then Stop, then Play
and I get this pop-up:

Internal GStreamer error: state change failed.  Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer.

Here is my uname -a
Linux melodic 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 01:31:09 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

========== Here is what I got from bug buddy ====================
Failed to set state on new child.
** (gnome-sound-recorder:7709): WARNING **: Unknown codec ID 86022, please add here
ERROR: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed.  Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer.
DEBUG MESSAGE: gstswitchsink.c(176): gst_switch_commit_new_kid (): /playbin/abin/sink:
Failed to set state on new child.
(gnome-sound-recorder:7709): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 
Trying to dispose element fakesink, but it is not in the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
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To be fair, my sound system is flaky.  Usually, the Sound Recorder
works for me, but several times it has not.  Skype does not work, with 
messages of "Failed Call" or "Error in Playback" (although, Skype did
work a couple of months ago).  I only recently got
my PulseAudio server running by putting myself into the pulse-rt group.

I understand that my HDA Intel audio system is not well-supported?