Alsamixer says "pisound has no capture device"

Yes. IIRC, it might have been about using sudo. Thought this part was discussed in another thread.

Oh, yes, this one: [SOLVED] Capturing MODEP Output with jack_capture? - #5 by C0d3man

If that doesn’t help, could dig through some of my history files.

Oh? Interestingly, my experience with this forum is that answered::non-answered is fairly decent, especially by comparison to most other parts of the Maker movement. But it might be lower than the RasPi average, come to think of it. Friendly and welcoming group, but not necessarily the most active.
At the same time, the level of thoughtfulness from replies is pretty high, even by RasPi standards (which are way higher than, say, Arduino forums).

(As you might guess, this is a big topic, to me. As lovely as Maker Culture can be, the type of collaboration involved is often very specific. Was just discussing this with someone who’s leading a very neat open hardware/firmware/data project.)