[linux-audio-user] how to record streaming audio?

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:44:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:52:36AM -0700, airplays55 at yahoo.com wrote:
> > > I want to run a sound recorder like audacity to record
> > > what is coming thru my soundcard when playing
> > > streaming audio thru xmms.
> Why not use the xmms disk writer?

of course that would be the simple answer ...

> > > However audacity can't open the audio port /dev/dsp
> > > when streaming audio is playing.  This is on knoppix
> > > 3.4 using the OSS driver.
> > > Would using ALSA make this possible?
> > yes. you would need to set up the dmix plugin in .asoundrc.
> But dmix won't help with recording, it's purely a playback mixer. Even
> dshare won't help here. However I had some success using the "tee" or
> even better, the "file" plugin.

doh. :-/ that's what I get for giving advice I wouldn't and haven't used
myself. oh well.

-Eric Rz.