On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:44:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:52:36AM -0700, airplays55@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I want to run a sound recorder like audacity to record > > > what is coming thru my soundcard when playing > > > streaming audio thru xmms. > Why not use the xmms disk writer? of course that would be the simple answer ... > > > However audacity can't open the audio port /dev/dsp > > > when streaming audio is playing. This is on knoppix > > > 3.4 using the OSS driver. > > > Would using ALSA make this possible? > > yes. you would need to set up the dmix plugin in .asoundrc. > But dmix won't help with recording, it's purely a playback mixer. Even > dshare won't help here. However I had some success using the "tee" or > even better, the "file" plugin. doh. :-/ that's what I get for giving advice I wouldn't and haven't used myself. oh well. -Eric Rz.
