[linux-audio-user] sound recording application

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Sep 7 12:57:17 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:49 -0400, Rob wrote:
> On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:50, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> > He needs an audio application that will record for a specific
> > amount of time, say, for 4 hours, without user intervention. 
> 
> rec 4hourrecording.wav & sleep 14400; killall -INTR rec
> 
> ;)

Suboptimal (requires OSS emulation).  Better:

arecord 4hourrecording.wav & sleep 14400; killall -INTR arecord

NB: This will record 8 bit mono at 8000Hz.  Use "arecord -f cd" for
better quality.

Lee




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