Hi All I wondered if anyone could shed some light what's wrong here. I'm trying to record from a stereo source coming in via the line in of a Sound Blaster Live Value. Firstly I tried with the latest of alsa release candidate one. I tried many things but for example, if I entered the following: arecord -f cd test.wav The file would claim to be stereo but be only in one channel. I removed alsa and selected the SB Live in the kernel config and built a new kernel. So after playing around with aumix, I got my line in source playing and gave it the R record status. I found that I could not put the -c 2 and -r 44100 together. The version of sox requires that effects are stated after the filename. So successful commands are: rec -c 2 -f s -s w test.wav rec -f s -s w test.wav -r 44100 rec -c 2 -f s -s w test.wav -r 22050 In other words I can record in cd quality only in mono. Or stereo recordings will only work at a rate of 22050 and not at the cd quality that I wish to use. The fact that the alsa and the sox route aren't working suggests that it is a hardware problem but it seems odd. I'm confident that I have enough resources to make stereo recordings. As it is a Athlon 1.4 processor 256 RAM and I've plenty of free disk space somewhere 10 Gb. BTW: How do you establish exactly how much disk space is free? We know also that the sox version is dodgy too as the rec script is currupt, so this could be the problem as I've borrowed the rec script from the previous version. I'm using: sox: Version 12.17.3 All I want to do is to make a stereo cd quality recording. Any suggestions of what the cause of my problems are please? Thanks. Gena Have your say: Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org Please don't send me MS Word documents, see http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Personal Contact Details: E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465
