Linux Audio "VCR"?

[Leo Mauler]

I have to work a lot of weekends these days, and I'm
out so late on Saturdays that, having missed "A
Prairie Home Companion" from 5-7pm Saturday, I sleep
right through the Sunday morning repeat.

I'm really looking for a reason not to use Windows 98
and the "Total Recorder" application I registered a
few years ago.  This solution technically works, it
allows me to record from Line In at a pre-scheduled
time, without me having to be around to start the
recorder.  

The problem is that after about an hour of recording
the WAV file develops pops and crackles, and starts
losing sections of the recording.  I don't mind a Mono
recording and even that setting doesn't help.

I somehow think Linux might do a better job (and ext3
should manage the larger WAV files better than FAT32),
but no one seems to be using the "record from Line In"
option for recording radio like a VCR.  Everyone's
developing projects using hardware FM Radio cards, and
I'm just not in that income bracket these days.

So how does one go about doing a timed recording in
Linux?  Assume that the sound hardware is already
installed and working (KNOPPIX 3.7 detects the
SoundBlaster PCI card with no problems).  I'm probably
going to use Mandrake 10.0 since I'm used to it.  I'd
still prefer a console solution, the machine is a
PII-300MHz with 256MB RAM.



		
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