Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/12/2011 5:12 PM, ken wrote: >> I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in >> a class, interviews, etc... not really music, just voice. Per usual, a >> lot of these write their audio files in some Windows format, e.g., WMA. >> As a confirmed

Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/12/2011 5:12 PM, ken wrote: > I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in > a class, interviews, etc... not really music, just voice. Per usual, a > lot of these write their audio files in some Windows format, e.g., WMA. > As a confirmed Linux guy, I'd want to of

Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-13 Thread Nick
You might look into a SanDisk Sansa Clip+. (I don't own one, but I know someone who does.) This: - supports playback of Ogg files (amongst other things) [1,2,3]. - can record audio (although I believe this may be in WAV format [2,4]) - has USB, can behave as a mass storage device, so works fin

Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
ken wrote: > As a confirmed Linux guy, I'd want to offload the audio files in some > format that Linux can read/play natively. I've read a sketchy > suggestion that there's a Linux app or utility to do a translation from > WMA, , but I always like to

Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/12/11 3:12 PM, ken wrote: > I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in > a class, interviews, etc... my wife has a little Olympus voice recorder, it supports recording in several qualities of .mp3 files, but there's lots of software on lunix that will play .w

Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-12 Thread allan
Hi Ken, If yer stuck with WMA, mplayer will convert to WAV format using `mplayer filename.WMA -ao pcm:waveheader` which will create a fixed name file, audiodump.wav which then can be encoded MP3 using lame or other encoder. My wife had a problem with her recorder in that it *only* created WMA. A b

Re: [CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-12 Thread B.J. McClure
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 18:12 -0400, ken wrote: > I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in > a class, interviews, etc... not really music, just voice. Per usual, a > lot of these write their audio files in some Windows format, e.g., WMA. > As a confirmed Linux guy, I'

[CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-12 Thread ken
I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in a class, interviews, etc... not really music, just voice. Per usual, a lot of these write their audio files in some Windows format, e.g., WMA. As a confirmed Linux guy, I'd want to offload the audio files in some format that