I settled on arecord. One question I did have, is there a way to hear the audio input source? On the old sound blaster cards, they had a "what you hear" option. So you could plug in your microphone or stereo and hear it through your headphones and adjust the volume accordingly. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 21:30:54 -1000 Subject: Re: Audio Recording > > What are we using for audio recording on linux these days. In the gui. Is audacity still the best one from an a11y standpoint? How about CLI? > > I'm interested in recording from line-in so I can archive some of my tapes. > > Hi, > > >From the command line, probably sox, ecasound or arecord. For > example, ecasound -i:alsa,default -f:16,2,48000 -o:tape1.wav > > This records from the default ALSA soundcard, in stereo 16 > bit depth at 48kHz to file tape1.wav. I think there is a > parameter for duration if you know in advance, and you can > also just stop the engine with Ctrl-C. > > For multitrack recording in a terminal, I can offer a > shameless plug for Nama, based on Ecasound. Nama does most > of what you would want for recording, mixing and mastering > in a text environment. > > A prolific user of this program has posted many of her compositions here: > http://juliencoder.de/nama/ > > Here is some information about project: > http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html > https://metacpan.org/release/Audio-Nama > > Feel free to contact me for support. > > Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list