On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:33:58 +0000, Nick wrote: > Hi, > > I generally use the impressive krecord program to capture audio from my sound card. >It works great, but as a GUI it is geared to user interaction. What I need to do is >capture some audio at a set time (as a cron job, or at task) for a specified period. >I can handle putting a script together to start and stop a task at specified times, >but how can I capture the audio samples into a file? > > I'm guessing something like 'cat /dev/dsp > filename' might work (or /dev/audio?), >but is there more to it - e.g. sample rate? Or maybe somebody knows of a tool to do >this. (I need to capture to file as I will be capturing around an hours worth)
I've used that exact cat command to capture some audio a while back; then I had to use "sox -r <rate>" to convert the file to a regular sound format file. Never tried, but maybe you can combine the capture and output with a clever "sox ..." command. Pierre -- Just switched to Sylpheed (from Nuts-crash); let me know if this post is not OK... still tweaking it.
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