Linux Audio "VCR"?

[D. Hageman]

cron for the scheduling.  arecord for the recording.


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Leo Mauler wrote:

> 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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