There is a package called ameter. Seem to. Yes. ameter works for both record and playback. ameter. Maybe you can stop it from segv-ing every few hours? :-) I fixed one bug and mailed it to the author but didn't check to see if he updated it (I have 0.3). It concerned ^C behavior, e.g. ^C out of aplay or arecord with ameter as the device.