What is it that makes recording and playback to and from a tape drive not work, as it'd seem linux wshould be capable of? I once tried arecord from alsa to do this, figuring I really could send the output to any device I wanted, to my surprise, it won't work. I tried sox, making another device file /dev/tape.wav, and it won't play or record from it either. Is there a way to make this work with the ftape floppy tape drivers? I thought things work just like a regular disk, with the exception of not being able to delete, which is OK here, just record over, or fast forward to the end and continue. I suppose this really isn't the intended purpose, but many linux utilities are able to do things with stdin and stdout that may not have been thought of before. I figured, using gzip with the recording process would give lossless compression to store more than I ever could before, to make for the ideal removable media, for linux compatibility, and that I already have it. I bet, however, any tape I could dump raw wave out, or gzipped wave out to will never play in windows or anything else, but that doesn't matter much.
