Thanks for the recommendations for programs to record audio. So far (about three hours) I can't get any of them to work, but I'll keep on trying. mpegrec (in its "wavrec" guise) looked like it was oging to work, but it never actually wrote anything to disk. The others just entirely killed sound that had previously worked.
The Linux sound HOWTO just says (basically) to copy /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, but neither of those do anything useful at all :-( I guess that my "embarrassingly simple" question isn't really embarrassingly simple at all. Everything else to do with sound seems to work fine (I can play CDs, listen to WAV or MP3 files or grab RealAudio off the Web). So I'm sure it isn't anything silly like a fundamental configuration problem. It may, of course, be a fundamental "lack of understanding" problem :-) I remember way back in LM 7.0 getting sound to work using sox without any trouble. But things are obviously more complicated these days. "artsdsp rec output.wav" produces a file with a WAV header, but nothing else. Doc Evans -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
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