[buug] Early summary [Was: "record" mp3/ogg?]

[Tony Godshall]

According to Chris Waters,
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:41:44PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > A quick run down the list of people's suggestions.
> 
> > 1/ I was unaware that general-purpose audio file editors like audacity
> > can record line-in.  It certainly seems to contradict the "one job well"
> > maxim, but I guess we've come a long way (toward hell, that is).
> 
> Well, actually, you can record using nothing but cat(1).  What you
> can't do (at least not easily) with cat is set the sample rate and the
> mixer/channel-select controls.  Once you've got something that can do
> controlled playback of raw sound data, though, you're about 95% of the
> way to making something that can record as well, So, while in general
> I agree with you about the bloat issue, in this case I think it makes
> sense to provide the extra feature.
> 
> The Linux sound card interface is dead easy once you look into it.
> 
> > 3/ ecasound seems like exactly what I am looking for.  It even has
> > an Emacs interface :-)
> 
> I've actually edited raw sound files in emacs.  There's even a live
> concert recording up on the Internet Archive now that has emacs in its
> lineage, thanks to your truly.  :)
> 
> Uncompressed sound file formats are dead easy once you look into it.
> 
> > 4/ gramophile can detect and cut tracks,  but I really hate it's
> > half-arsed curses UI (it doesn't even react to screen size change).
> > It would have been much better off with a straight CLI like ecasound.
> 
> Bummer.  I've heard good things about it, but never actually tried
> it.  The filters designed for clicks and pops (as often found on
> vinyl) seemed like a pretty useful feature too.  Trapping SIGWINCH is
> not difficult.  Did you send in a bug report?
> 
> One last thing I should mention: if you ever plan to burn your sound
> files to audio CD, you should make sure the data is a proper multiple
> of the audio CD sector size, or you may end up with coasters.  The
> "--sector-align" option for FLAC is a good place to start.

cdrecord now handles this automagically, at least when I
feed it a stack of .wav files.

sox works great for me for recording from line-in.

it comes with a 'rec' front-end that is the simplest way I
know to do line-in to raw binary (e.g. the nearly universal .wav)