making sound files under Linux

[D. Taylor]

From the command line, I've used "wavr" to record
from various inputs (mic, line in).  IIRC, you can
specify mono/stereo, number of bits, and sample
rate.


D

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Patrick Stoddard wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:36:43 -0800 (PST)
> From: Patrick Stoddard <wd9ewk@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: making sound files under Linux
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> While I am in the office earning my paycheck (well, I
> earn it 24/7 with a pager on), I have a tape recording
> I would like to turn into a WAV or MP3 file on my
> PC.  I have been goign through the sound-related
> HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs and was looking for some
> advice from anyone reading on here - especially if
> any of you do this (or have done this in the past).
> 
> The system I am looking to do this on is a P200
> with a SoundBlaster AWE32 using the sound stuff
> as supplied by Red Hat, and running Red Hat 6.1
> (2.2.12-20) at home.  My other system is an IBM
> ThinkPad i1411 with a Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound chip,
> using the ALSA 0.4.1i sound drivers.  I am not
> sure if I can get the record to work on here, but
> I would think that the box at home (with the AWE32)
> should work.  What software should I be looking at
> to capture the incoming audio and write the file?
> 
> If I can end up with a WAV file, I know I can 
> feed that through BladeEnc and make an MP3.  Since
> this is just spoken audio, I would reduce the MP3's
> resolution and make it only mono and not stereo.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
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