Recording with Rec?

[Tony Baechler]

One thing I forgot to mention which I'm sure was pointed out already is 
that you don't need to be root to record.  If you're getting permission 
errors opening your sound device and it isn't in use by another process, 
make sure your user is added to the audio group.  I found that adding 
the user I store most of my files under to the audio group solved a lot 
of problems.  This is definitely true with sox and MPlayer as I use both 
as a normal user regularly.

On 2/10/2010 2:44 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> I have some questions for you.  First, is the audio that you want to 
> record primarily online streams or do you want to record with an 
> external source?  If you want to use a microphone or similar, I don't 
> know what to suggest.  However, if it's mostly streams you want, just 
> use MPlayer and have it output to a PCM wave file.  You can then use 
> sox, lame or oggtools to encode to mp3 or ogg.  Also, if it's an mp3 
> stream such as shoutcast, icecast or similar, wget should work 
> nicely.  If it's Windows Media, try mmsclient.  In the case of 
> MPlayer, this is what I use:
>
> mplayer -quiet -vo null -ao pcm file.rm
>
> It also supports .asf and obviously online streams and playlists.  If 
> it's an online mp3 stream, do something like this:
>
> wget -b -i file.m3u -O file.mp3
>
> You can also pass a URL instead of a .m3u playlist.  I have recorded 
> streams for years this way.  Be warned that the wget method does not 
> write proper mp3 headers.  I've never had a problem with the files 
> playing, but technically they aren't valid.
>
> On 2/9/2010 8:55 PM, Hart Larry wrote:
>> By chance, are their better programs in non-graphical to record audio 
>> from my sound-card?  Hopefully without always switching to root.
>> I seem to have an mp3blaster, but in alsamixer, it is missing any 
>> options for increasing treble, so I handle that in mplayer.
>
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