Re: [ecasound] data-logging with ecasound?

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, The Eye wrote:

> Now here at the new department (physics, Uni Ulm) we were thinking that
> a soundcard is quite a nifty tool, it provides two channels at 44100 Hz
> .. so why not use it for data-logging?
[...]
> So .. question is: can ecasound be coerced into writing to a clear-text
> ascii file that could later be examined with gnuplot or some tool like
> that? Or can raw/wav-files somehow be transformed to such a clear text
> file?

Hmm, interesting problem. One option is to use hexdump:

ecasound -i alsa -o stdout -q |hexdump |data-log.txt

With hexdump's -f option (see hexdump(1)) you have full control
over the output formatting.

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