Thanks for the suggestion Peter!

As for how to go about doing what you described in Linux, I'm at a loss.

I have no experience using Rev and Shell scripts in Linux. The reason why I am interested is that I working on a little utility that allows students to record an audio response and then ftp the resulting audio file to a server. This works fine on my Mac, and I presume it will on Windows too (though have not tested extensively yet).

We have recently begun using Netbooks running Ubuntu Remix with our students (about 600 of them currently). We do have Audacity on them for recording audio, among a whole collection of other great software tools.

I would like to be able to get my little utility to work on the Netbooks too. I have looked up krecord and hunted some discussion lists related to command line commands for this tool.

I don't see too much in the area of command line language for Audacity, so I'm guessing we will have to use krecord or ALSA. These laptops do have ALSA arecord and aplay and I do see an example in man for "arecord:"

arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav -D copy foobar.wav

(I'm guessing in the example above, I would need to give the complete path when saving the foobar.wav file. Something like ~/home/student/ foobar.wav )

I have never done anything like this with Rev before and need some direction. I'm guessing that I'm going to need to create a function that will contain the shell script and then call it from a button when I want to record...? But I don't have a clue what it would look like???

Does someone have a simple example stack I can pick apart?

Thank you!

John Patten






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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:45:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Record Audio in Rev on Linux OS?
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
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Dunno about Rev directly, but you can go out to shell, and then use the Linux command line tools. The easiest gui recording tool is krecord, but there
are lots of non-gui ones.  Use zenity to get a gui for them.  Then when
you've captured the file, go out to the shell again to play it. Or maybe this is what you were trying to avoid? Most things that Rev cannot do can
be done in the shell.
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