Hello Robert, > > Use plughw instead of hw in these lines. hw doesn't do any sample rate > or format conversion, that may be what is going on. > Tried arecord -f dat -D plughw:0,3 -d 20 test.wav and talked into the mic for over 20 seconds and the -d switch never kicked in I guess. When I ctrl-c out, the file was only 1632044 bytes (8 seconds worth) and it sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks. But at least I am making progress since I did get sound recorded. Any ideas what might be going on here? Regards, Murrah Boswell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user