On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 12:16:59 -0500, Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
If you could beg / borrow / steal :-) another sound card just for
temporary testing would be a logical next step.
Finally gave up on Knoppix when the hard drive installed version wouldn't
record at all !
(It didn't
Quoting Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm still a bit puzzled as to why you're looking at KNOPPIX as a
replacement for SuSE. To me, that's like replacing your tennis racket
with your golf clubs. They are just meant to do entirely different
jobs.
A more likely replacement for SuSE would
Squabsy wrote:
My reason for considering an insall of Knoppix is that I am able to
record wavs fine in it.
Understand. But Knoppix has no corner on that market. Any distro should
be able to handle the job - including SuSE. If switching is indeed the
solution, I'd go for something more targeted
and look for essomething...
Then search through /etc/modules.conf for the current module SuSE uses.
- Original Message -
From: Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:05:47
Squabsy wrote:
I have only been on SUSE a couple of months and have a fairly basic set
of applications so sitching to Knoppix would not be too painful Or I
could parallel run although I'm running out of disk space.
I'm still a bit puzzled as to why you're looking at KNOPPIX as a
replacement
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Should I need to do a HD install of knoppix to get it working ?
No, although you will need to remount a partition read/write.
Excuse me denseness but I tried last night to do this using various
parameters with the mount command but failed miserably.
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:34:08 +0100
Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Should I need to do a HD install of knoppix to get it working ?
No, although you will need to remount a partition read/write.
Excuse me denseness but I tried last night to
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:34:08 +0100
Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Should I need to do a HD install of knoppix to get it working ?
No, although you will need to remount a partition read/write.
Squabsy wrote:
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Should I need to do a HD install of knoppix to get it working ?
No, although you will need to remount a partition read/write.
Excuse me denseness but I tried last night to do this using various
parameters with the mount command but failed
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:05:47 -0500, Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the cd version of KNOPPIX I use, I just right click on the pretty icon
on the desk and tell it to remount as r/w.
Yes that worked and I managed to record a 30 min plus wav file in Knoppix
BRILLIANT !
It
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:35:46 -0500, Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I propose yet another test. Use knoppix and try recording again. I am
not ready to retire my col or SuSE systems but I kinda like the way
knoppix works.
Ha yes that's what I tried (it was also one of the reasons
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:35:46 -0500, Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I propose yet another test. Use knoppix and try recording again. I am
not ready to retire my col or SuSE systems but I kinda like the way
knoppix works.
Ha yes that's what
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:20:08 +0100, Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OK with ulimit -a I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ulimit -a
core file size(blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l)
On Monday 29 September 2003 6:41 am, someone claiming to be Squabsy wrote:
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:20:08 +0100, Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OK with ulimit -a I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ulimit -a
core file size(blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:20:08 +0100, Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OK with ulimit -a I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ulimit -a
core file size(blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
Squabsy wrote:
I still don't understand why any of the above limits would create a
problem when I'm trying to record a wav file that would be 500k at most.
I would propose a test:
- Create or find a test file of about 1M bytes
- Do this over and and over ...
'cat 1mfile bigfile.wav'
and see
Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:49:16 -0500
Squabsy wrote:
I still don't understand why any of the above limits would create a
problem when I'm trying to record a wav file that would be 500k at most.
I would propose a test:
- Create or find a test file of about 1M bytes
- Do
On 26 Sep 2003 07:14:54 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Doesn't SuSE have a ulimit command? It can be used to get and set file
size limits.
OK with ulimit -a I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ulimit -a
core file size(blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:48:42 -0500, Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Squabsy wrote:
Yes I noticed that and was going to have a play with it myself.
Can you set the bit rate and the hz from the command line ?
Yes. It has several of the most common options. There is a companion
'play'
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:53:08 -0500, Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Squabsy wrote:
... or is
there a Linux program that writes straight to disk ?
I've been working this afternoon with the 'sox' package from
http://sox.sourceforge.net/. It comes with a utility called 'rec' that
is
Squabsy wrote:
Yes I noticed that and was going to have a play with it myself.
Can you set the bit rate and the hz from the command line ?
Yes. It has several of the most common options. There is a companion
'play' command that takes the same options. The man page tells all.
I recompiled 'sox'
On 18 Sep 2003 17:54:58 -0400, burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:44, Net Llama! wrote:
yes, that's the load at the instant that you ran the command. were you
attempting to encode a wav when you ran that? if so, then the load
appears to be fine. you might want to
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:33, Squabsy wrote:
Having spent the weekend playing around with it and using TOP to see
what's going on I have come to the conclusion that all the Linux
softwares I have been trying are indeed storing the file up in RAM then
in my swap partition then hanging when it
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:00, Squabsy wrote:
Yes indeed I'm in Sunny :-D Bournemouth on the south coast. For 36 years
(I haven't roamed very far I'm afraid)
I lived in Northwood, about 6 miles from Watford. The village is split.
Half is in the Hillingdon borough of Greater London. The other half
be double
your ram. I think the recordings I have made get more glichy once the ram
run's out and the SWAP kicks in.
By changing to 16bit I have managed about 7 mins recording so far before
it goes du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Recording wavs is really the only major problem I'm having with Linux so
I
made get more glichy once the ram
run's out and the SWAP kicks in.
By changing to 16bit I have managed about 7 mins recording so far before
it goes du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Recording wavs is really the only major problem I'm having with Linux so
I don't want to spend too much. I suppose I could
Squabsy wrote:
Having spent the weekend playing around with it and using TOP to see
what's going on I have come to the conclusion that all the Linux
softwares I have been trying are indeed storing the file up in RAM then
in my swap partition then hanging when it gets full.
The Windows software I
Squabsy wrote:
... or is
there a Linux program that writes straight to disk ?
I've been working this afternoon with the 'sox' package from
http://sox.sourceforge.net/. It comes with a utility called 'rec' that
is about the simplest recorder ever. It's a CLI tool, give it a command
like ...
$
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:11:01 -0400
Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Really?
I've always been under the impression that there wasn't any real audible
difference between 8-bit audio and 16-bit. Time for some
experimentation...
What is the bit rate on Super Audio CDs (SACD)? They are
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:11:01 -0400, Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Really?
I've always been under the impression that there wasn't any real audible
difference between 8-bit audio and 16-bit. Time for some
experimentation...
Having read all the comments over the last few days I went in
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Having played with the above settings and tried saving to different
drives I am still getting 1.39 minutes of recording then a lot of
stutters as the program hangs.
Every WAV file I create no matter which software I use is exactly the
same file size 1.09gb
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:25:58 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What is the load on the box when this is happening? You really need to
take a snapshot of the system behavior while this is happening.
You could also consider using a different window manager. I wouldn't' be
at
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:49 pm, someone claiming to be Matthew
Carpenter wrote:
11 bit is used for a lot of voice. 16 bit is the accepted standard for
music... some stereophiles love 24bit, and 32bit just seems a little like
overkill.
snip
A little googling found this link:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This explains the seeming lack of
quality of my
recent .WAV recordings. I chalked the problem up to old, deterioted
vinyl.
Count yourself lucky at least they are longer than 1.39 mins !!! :-)
I was looking at some cd's at lunchtime and they were old
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:25:58 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Having played with the above settings and tried saving to different
drives I am still getting 1.39 minutes of recording then a lot of
stutters as the program hangs.
Every WAV
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:25:58 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Having played with the above settings and tried saving to different
drives I am still getting 1.39 minutes of recording then a lot of
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:44, Net Llama! wrote:
yes, that's the load at the instant that you ran the command. were you
attempting to encode a wav when you ran that? if so, then the load
appears to be fine. you might want to just run 'top' the entire time to
see what is going on across the
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:25:38 -0400, Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
FWIW, 20 minutes of 44.1KHz 8-bit stereo recorded from vinyl takes up
about
200 MB of space on my ext3 filesystem. RHL 8.0 on an 1GHz Duron with
384MB
RAM.
And yes, that /windows/C drive looks mighty full.
I don't
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:12:07 +0100 Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
professed:
I notice that you state 8 bit I may well have mine set at 16 or even
32bit (can't check till this evening)
Is 8 bit adequate
For voice quaility 8bit is just fine. For music, no way. 16bit, per
channel at 44K/sec adds
11 bit is used for a lot of voice. 16 bit is the accepted standard for music... some
stereophiles love 24bit, and 32bit just seems a little like overkill.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:12:07 +0100
Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:25:38 -0400, Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Really?
I've always been under the impression that there wasn't any real audible
difference between 8-bit audio and 16-bit. Time for some experimentation...
Tim
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:49 pm, someone claiming to be Matthew
Carpenter wrote:
11 bit is used for a lot of voice. 16 bit
Quoting Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are you running artsd? If so (Ctrl-Esc brings up Process Manager in KDE)
try killing it before starting Audacity. I do not claim to be an expert on
aRTs, but I believe it puts hooks into the ALSA system and isn't
necessary... and has caused
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hardware problem? What are your hardware specs (CPU, RAM, HD) etc?
What do you think would be a reasonable MINIMUM spec for recording a 30 min wav
in linux ?
My machine copes with it fine in Windows 98se
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A timer? gnome-sound-recorder has a recording timeout as a preference, could
be what you're running into
I don't seem to have a version of g-s-r with the edit command that is described
in the manual I'll have to try and find a more up to date
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:22:20 +0100, Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity
(or gnome-sound-recorder, or gramophile) would be using.
How would I check this please ?
By entering df -h
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:28:32 +0100, Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hardware problem? What are your hardware specs (CPU, RAM, HD) etc?
What do you think would be a reasonable MINIMUM spec for recording a
30 min wav in linux ?
My machine
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 4:26 am, someone claiming to be Squabsy wrote:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A timer? gnome-sound-recorder has a recording timeout as a preference,
could
be what you're running into
I don't seem to have a version of g-s-r with the edit command
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity (or
gnome-sound-recorder, or gramophile) would be using.
How would I check this please ?
df -h
i'd also be really curious what the load is on
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:35 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'd also be really curious what the load is on you box while its encoding
(uptime output).
OK
Thank you all for all you tips help.
I will have another play either tonight or tomorrow evening and let you
know how I
df
- Original Message -
From: Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: recording wavs
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity (or
gnome-sound-recorder
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:35 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity (or
gnome-sound-recorder, or gramophile) would be using.
How
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:35 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity (or
gnome-sound-recorder,
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 6:41 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:35 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or partition
Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Running out of disk space or memory perhaps? Do you end up with a file?
I do end up with a file that is as long as however long I leave Audacity
recording for but after 1.39 mins it just repeats the same millisecond of music
over over.
Gramofile
Quoting Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sunday 14 September 2003 6:20 pm, someone claiming to be Squabsy wrote:
I am he
A timer? gnome-sound-recorder has a recording timeout as a preference, could
be what you're running into
I did try g-s-r once so maybe I invoked the timer I
hangs both progs, look deeper, like
sound card or irq settings, or hard drive space, etc
Good luck!
- Original Message -
From: Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: recording wavs
I'm trying to move from windows over
Message -
From: Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: recording wavs
I'm trying to move from windows over to Linux
I'm running suse 8.2
Most things I could do in Windows I am able to do in Linux however I am
strugling with my
On 9/15/2003 12:58 PM, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter wrote:
I am using SuSE 8.2 and the included Audacity, and have been recording,
cutting, and burning audio CD's for quite some time now. I do at least one
session per week, more like 2 or 3.
I don't know what might be causing the
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:01, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
Are you running artsd? If so (Ctrl-Esc brings up Process Manager in KDE)
Hot damn! I need to learn these sequences!
Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stockholm, Sweden http://www.surbrunn.net
I'm trying to move from windows over to Linux
I'm running suse 8.2
Most things I could do in Windows I am able to do in Linux however I am
strugling with my
ongoing project to burn my old Vinyl collection to CD.
In window I used CDwave to record and split the wavs
In LInux I have so far tried to
On 09/14/03 15:20, Squabsy wrote:
I'm trying to move from windows over to Linux
I'm running suse 8.2
Most things I could do in Windows I am able to do in Linux however I am
strugling with my
ongoing project to burn my old Vinyl collection to CD.
In window I used CDwave to record and split the
On Sunday 14 September 2003 6:20 pm, someone claiming to be Squabsy wrote:
I'm trying to move from windows over to Linux
I'm running suse 8.2
Most things I could do in Windows I am able to do in Linux however I am
strugling with my
ongoing project to burn my old Vinyl collection to CD.
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