Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecasound on dell laptop working
From: S. Massy (theanaloguekid_AT_tak.net.dhis.org)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 22:14:24 EET
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, De Clarke <de_AT_ucolick.org> wrote:
>
> question; when recording with
>
> ecasound -i:/dev/dsp -o somefile.wav
>
> is there any way to stop the recording other than ctrl-c? so far I
Not in that mode because that's the noninteractive mode, but if you add
the `-c' switch then you get to control just about anything you may have
a mind to. When you're there type help for a kickstart, but you really
should read the IAM manpage (`man ecasound-iam`).
> if other folks on this list could comment on what other tools they
> use with ecasound I would be very interested to hear about wav file
> editors, standalone noise filters etc. I built Gmurf but as yet I
> don't understand what it does.
Well, personally I find ecasound does just about everything I want, this
and a few accessory tools like lame, mpg123, vorbis-tools, timidity and,
of course, sox.
>
> my adventures so far are very small beginner steps:
>
> ecasound -i:/dev/dsp -o somefile.wav
> ecasound -i somefile.wav -o /dev/dsp
> lame somefile.wav somefile.mp3
> mpg123 somefile.mp3
BTW, ecasound is able to use lame and mpg123 directly, so you could also
do:
ecasound -i:somefile.wav -o:somefile.mp3
ecasound -i:somefile.mp3 -o:/dev/dsp
If you'd like to record both to a wav file and to an mp3 file you could
do:
ecasound -a:1,2 -i:/dev/dsp -a:1 -o:somefile.wav \
-a:2 -o:somefile.mp3
>
> I can hear a loss of quality in the mp3 output, but the compression
> is about 10 to 1 and the quality loss is not nearly that large :-)
> so I am impressed.
Lame also has a rich feature of tweakable parameters, it's worth
fiddling with them...
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