On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:59:48 -0700 Harry Putnam <reader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which tools on shrike do I need to play audio taped on my stereo and > record the sound into electronic data on my computer. > > I think I understand the mechanical part of hooking RCA cales from my > tape deck out line to a 1/8 adaptor into sound card. Once there; > which tools do I use to create files from the incoming audio? > > Somewhere I heard grip could do it but don't see anything on the > interface to indicate so. (that was on a 7.3) machine. > > I have 2 shrike machines running neither has X installed so command > line tools would be best. > > The simple play/rec apps look like it might do this but I was a > little bewildered by the command line choice. Hoping to get a few > syntax clues here. Hello, Harry :) I found the following command on a web site a few months ago, and I believe it does exactly what you want. Just to clarify, what I did with it was I took a cassette tape and hooked it up to my sound card, ran this command: sox -t ossdsp -w -s -r 44100 -c 2 /dev/dsp -t raw - | lame -x -m s - ./test.mp3 and out popped an mp3 of the information that was on the cassette tape. Here is the link to the exact page that I got the above quoted command from: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2001/article178.shtml I hope this is what you needed :) I'm no guru, but I have learned how to do all my CD making from the command line in Linux, so if I can be of help to you, feel free to ask. Who knows, maybe I'll learn something new while trying to help you :) Steven P. Ulrick
