Re: very lengthy recordings

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Have you looked at campware? It provides open source software solutions to run radio stations:

http://www.campware.org/

Not sure if it supports the sound backup you are wanting.

A simple bash script calling arecord to save date and timestamped files for a fixed duration should be able to do the job though (as long as you are using alsa!).

something like:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
   arecord -d 86400 -r 44100 -t wav soundbackup`date "+%H%m%d%y"`.wav
done

(haven't tested this so it may not work, but you get the idea!)

James

On 12/20/06, Dan Easley <daneasley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
please excuse the random spewing of ideas:

i work at a radio station, and it would be awesome if i could record
insanely long periods of time (for quality control).

i'd love to be able to record 24/7, with new audio replacing old.  a
400gig drive could hold two weeks of 16-bit 44.kHz stereo audio.  how
long could it survive constant writing?

alternatively, are there any one-line commands that will simply record
continuously to a series of files until a partition runs out of space?

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