On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Ken Dere wrote: > I am trying to record some phonograph records using arecord. I get xruns of > about 0.5s or so. I have tried increasing the buffer size which worked up to > a point. I have tried running as root which didn't help. On suggestion, install Ecasound from http://www.eca.cx/ecasound and record with: ecasound -i alsa,default -o foo.wav ... run as root if you still get drop-outs. And why this can help? See my mail (from Jun/2001 on ecasound-list): http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2001/06/0016.html -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!