recording wavs

[Squabsy]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:48:42 -0500, "Michael Hipp" <Michael at hipp.com>
said:
> Squabsy wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> Yes. It has several of the most common options. There is a companion 
> 'play' command that takes the same options. The man page tells all.
> 
> I recompiled 'sox' from source because the silly version that came with 
> Red Hat didn't have mp3 support compiled-in. I used it last night to 
> record a 40 min stereo wav. Came to 36.8MB and worked flawlessly. Then 
> used 'sox testcd.wav testcd.mp3' to convert it to mp3. The conversion 
> took forever (almost as long as the recording) but that's on this aged 
> PII-233. The compression reduced it to 9% of original size.
> 
> I love the fancy GUI tools like Audacity, but the CLI is just far more 
> deterministic for things that need to be done right, and consistently 
> and then I can even script and automate the conversion to mp3. Beats 
> endless mouse clicking any day. The fact that Audacity natively uses its 
> own file format doesn't help either.
> 
> Michael
> 

I'm really stumped & frustrated now. My PC is a similar spec to yours
Michael  (but with a K6 processor) but my recording, even using this sox
rec,  still hangs after 7 mins and creates a 2gb wav file with 7 mins of
music then 100 (approx) mins of d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d

I was beginning to accept that it might be a ram issue but you only have
256m like me.

Disk space seems irrelevant also as it does the same on all my partitions
however much/little is free.

using a different window manager made only a marginal diff (a few extra
seconds at most)

I can therefore record an album one track at a time (unless it's Pink
Floyd :-) with an 8 min freak out ) but I would like to be able to leave
it running for a whole side then come back and slice it up.

There must somewhere be an option or setting that I have set incorrectly
but I'm blowed if I know what it is
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