arecord? Haven't heard about that one, I was considering using rec from the sox package. Someone on the Internet suggested another package called "ecasound".

I haven't used cron much as a mostly home user of Linux. My main Linux machine doesn't change all that often to need to run many cron jobs.

--- "D. Hageman" dhageman@dracken.com wrote:

cron for the scheduling. arecord for the recording.

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Leo Mauler wrote:

...

I have to work a lot of weekends these days, and I'm out so late on Saturdays that, having missed "A Prairie Home Companion" from 5-7pm Saturday, I sleep right through the Sunday morning repeat.

I'm really looking for a reason not to use Windows 98 and the "Total Recorder" application I registered a few years ago. This solution technically works, it allows me to record from Line In at a pre-scheduled time, without me having to be around to start the recorder.

The problem is that after about an hour ofrecording the WAV file develops pops and crackles, and starts losing sections of the recording. I don't mind a Mono recording and even that setting doesn't help.

I somehow think Linux might do a better job (and ext3 should manage the larger WAV files better than FAT32), but no one seems to be using the "record from Line In" option for recording radio like a VCR. Everyone's developing projects using hardware FM Radio cards, and I'm just not in that income bracket these days.

So how does one go about doing a timed recording in Linux? Assume that the sound hardware is already installed and working (KNOPPIX 3.7 detects the SoundBlaster PCI card with no problems). I'm probably going to use Mandrake 10.0 since I'm used to it. I'd still prefer a console solution, the machine is a PII-300MHz with 256MB RAM.

And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.

-- Bertolt Brecht

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