Re: How to get audacity to record internet sounds?

Eric,

Audacity works sort of in Orca but as a side by side comparison, I
would use Goldwave in that other OS for accessibility purposes.

But if all you want to do is capture the audio stream from the net, I
would use mplayer and I will paste in a little ditty script I use to
make the command easier. The only downside is the captured file will
be encoded in the exact format as it comes from the stream. So an mp3
stream will end up as a mp3 file. If you want to capture as a wav
file for further processing, then this solution wouldn't be the
answer.

Here is my script as promised.

#!/bin/sh
# Capture a stream with mplayer

STREAM=$1
FILE=$2
mplayer -playlist $STREAM -dumpstream -dumpfile $FILE

Note that this script doesn't automatically name the file with the
appropriate format in mind so it helps greatly if you know the format
of the stream before running this.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:17:48PM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote:
> I would be interested in doing this myself (even if I compile linux code in OS X to do it).
>
> the only problem is that any X app I compile here will not be voiceover accessible, so I really do need a operating linux OS to do this on. I am not even sure yet if Audacity will even be orca compliant. guess I need to find out on the powerbook.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 12:41 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>
> >
> > How can I get audacity to record sound that I play on the internet?
> >
> > I just installed audacity and tried to record a sample sound on a website
> > but got the following error message"
> >
> > "Error while opening sound device. Please check
> > the input device settings and the project sample rate."
> >
> > Please see the screen capture at the following link:
> >
> > http://www.upquick.com/temp/audacity.jpg
> >
> > As you can see, the Audacity help page says: "In the drop-down menu on
> > Audacity's mixer toolbar, choose "Wave-Out" or "Stereo Mix" as the input
> > source."
> >
> > I'm not certain which drop-down menu they are referring to, but I assume
> > that it must be the one shown in the screen capture that lists: "Vol,
> > Line, Mic, CD, Line1, Phone in, Phone out, and Video." I could not find
> > any other drop down list or either "Wave-Out" or "Stereo Mix" or anything
> > like those terms on the Audacity interface as shown.
> >
> > So what do I need to do to get Audacity to record sounds that I can play
> > on Internet websites?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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