digital recording devices

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 23 April 2004 08:13 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, dep wrote:
> > greetings, boys and girls!
> >
> > i'm embarking on a little project that will involve a lot of interviews,
> > which i hope to make using one of the small, nifty digital recorders of
> > the sort made by sony and olympus (i have one of the little olympus
> > devices). these can be dumped to computer via usb port. problem is,
> > they seem to save everything in their own, proprietary, file format.
> > the format varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but in each case
> > is compressed. the machines also come with windows-only software, which
> > allows the user to convert to .wav, which is of course much larger.
> >
> > so what i'm looking for is either a linux application which can
> > manipulate these proprietary formats, a utility that runs under linux
> > which will simply convert the files to something that i can then
> > manipulate, or a manufacturer of these little recording devices which
> > employs a standard format or has software which runs under linux.
> >
> > anybody have any wisdom to impart?
>
> wine?
>
> Other than that, i think you're out of luck.

Can you capture audio into a file by plugging the headphone port into a 
soundcard or into a brooktree device?

(Didn't Edith play around with audio stuff in Linux? Where is she when we need 
her?)

Andrew Gould