Linux Audio "VCR"?

[Leo Mauler]

arecord?  Haven't heard about that one, I was
considering using rec from the sox package.  Someone
on the Internet suggested another package called
"ecasound".

I haven't used cron much as a mostly home user of
Linux.  My  main Linux machine doesn't change all that
often to need to run many cron jobs.

--- "D. Hageman" <dhageman at dracken.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 ofrecording 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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