Noah, you *do* know that you need to send output from your turntable through an amplifier with a phono stage or an external phono stage for it to be of any useful strength, right? :)
As for software that won't chew CPU or segfault, I don't know. Post back to the list whatever software you do end up using. :) (will a good cat /proc/asound/<device>/<right port here> > /tmp/filename do the job? :) On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:53:58PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I'm trying to rip some mp3s off some records (yes, vinyl) that I've got, > but I'm having a hard time finding a decent tool for the job. I've got > the turntable plugged in to the Line In port on my Trident 4D Wave > soundcard, and I can play records and hear then (albeit faintly, even with > input volume at 100%) from my speakers. However, I can't record anything. > I've tried wavr from the wavtools package, but it segfaults when I pass it > the -l flag (which tells it to use line in). I can get wavr to work if > the turntable is plugged in to the Mic port on the soundcard, but that > port only supports mono, and the quality is poor. > > I've also tried ecasound from http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/ which > is supposed to natively support ALSA, but it doesn't seem to do anything. > It just eats up CPU cycles with calls to > sched_yield(0x401e5810, 0xbffffb30, 0, 0xbffffb30, 0xbffffb54) = 0 > > So, I'm stumped, and I'm looking for ideas for other tools to try. It > would be cool if it was in .deb format, but at this point I'll try > anything. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks in advance! > > Noah > > > PGP public key available at > http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html > or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBN/AfuodCcpBjGWoFAQFvtgP/QIxP+LRy6OpBgoLw0zyT4GzFfRycCivh > BmOrq5wNQROB4Dy1TIQ2tScw5Zp9VMbWKhSSkZZrpzPkvjyHx9yarnYSV5+kRxcp > 47ZqrnGKXWMaUxVJMb318Hb37NitTj1n8cDPDpMPi/8zJZMuJUjRI+zloLJ9+R6M > gipkdaz0+yQ= > =yEtA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
