On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:48:42 -0500, "Michael Hipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Squabsy wrote: > > Yes I noticed that and was going to have a play with it myself. > > Can you set the bit rate and the hz from the command line ? > > Yes. It has several of the most common options. There is a companion > 'play' command that takes the same options. The man page tells all. > > I recompiled 'sox' from source because the silly version that came with > Red Hat didn't have mp3 support compiled-in. I used it last night to > record a 40 min stereo wav. Came to 36.8MB and worked flawlessly. Then > used 'sox testcd.wav testcd.mp3' to convert it to mp3. The conversion > took forever (almost as long as the recording) but that's on this aged > PII-233. The compression reduced it to 9% of original size. > > I love the fancy GUI tools like Audacity, but the CLI is just far more > deterministic for things that need to be done right, and consistently > and then I can even script and automate the conversion to mp3. Beats > endless mouse clicking any day. The fact that Audacity natively uses its > own file format doesn't help either. > > Michael >
I'm really stumped & frustrated now. My PC is a similar spec to yours Michael (but with a K6 processor) but my recording, even using this sox rec, still hangs after 7 mins and creates a 2gb wav file with 7 mins of music then 100 (approx) mins of d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d I was beginning to accept that it might be a ram issue but you only have 256m like me. Disk space seems irrelevant also as it does the same on all my partitions however much/little is free. using a different window manager made only a marginal diff (a few extra seconds at most) I can therefore record an album one track at a time (unless it's Pink Floyd :-) with an 8 min freak out ) but I would like to be able to leave it running for a whole side then come back and slice it up. There must somewhere be an option or setting that I have set incorrectly but I'm blowed if I know what it is -- Squabsy Using Opera, The Bat, K-meleon, or Becky. Trying to use Linux Right Now Using Fastmail when I should be working _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
