Daniel Kasak <dkasak at nusconsulting.com.au> writes:
> I've tried uncommenting the 'module-pipe-sink' line in the default
> configuration file, but when I try to play sounds after that ( ie with
> 'aplay' ), the process just hangs. Also the file /tmp/music.output
> doesn't grow from 0 bytes. So I assume it doesn't quite work like this.
> Perhaps I have to attach something to this file? What do I do? I just
> want a format that I can later edit ( because many songs play one after
> the other, and we want to cut them up into individual files ) and
> convert to mp3s with lame.
The documentation of module-pip-sink says :
Provides a simple test sink that writes the audio data to a FIFO
special file in the file system. The sink name defaults to
pipe_output.
The following option is supported:
file
The name of the FIFO special file to use. (defaults to:
/tmp/music.output)
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-pipe-sink
So the music.output will not be a normal file, but a fifo that you can
read from. If you want to simply read from it and save to a file, you
can use cat or dd.
$ cat < /tmp/music.output > myaudiodata
I don't know what format it will be in, but I suppose it will be raw
PCM data.
Not that I have tested this myself, though.
--
David K?gedal
