On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 03:10:24PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The software I wrote doesn't predate oss but some > documentation I red years ago that probably does predate oss was > what I used to wrige some C routines that send and receive sound > plus use ioctl to set, say, /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 for stereo at > 32000 samples per second. > > I used that to make a stereo sound card record 2 > independent 8-K 8-bit audio channels from two radio scanners > > Music stinks when recorded that way but scanner audio has > such a limited pass band that it sounds pretty decent. > > Many thanks. > > > It also pointed me to <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoLinuxDevDsp>, > > if that's of any help. > > I will save this message and also learn the correct way > to send and receive audio these days.
I think that 'sox' which can also be called as 'play' or 'rec' is what you want. Use rec to record from sound-input, and sox to split it by channel into two files. -dsr-
