recording wavs

[Squabsy]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:53:08 -0500, "Michael Hipp" <Michael at hipp.com>
said:
> Squabsy wrote:
> > ... or is
> > there a Linux program that writes straight to disk ?
> 
> I've been working this afternoon with the 'sox' package from 
> http://sox.sourceforge.net/. It comes with a  utility called 'rec' that 
> is about the simplest recorder ever. It's a CLI tool, give it a command 
> like ...
> 
> $ rec -c 2 -d /dev/dsp test.wav
> 
> That's two channels (stereo) to record from the dsp device to test.wav. 
> It does indeed record the wav directly to disk. And it uses a steady 5 - 
> 10% of cpu in the process instead of Audacity's 85-95% (this on my 
> PII-233) so there is less chance of pops or such if the thing doesn't 
> keep up.
> 
> This is about as lean 'n mean as it gets.
> 

Yes I noticed that and was going to have a play with it myself.
Can you set the bit rate and the hz from the command line ?
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