Madplay capture output to file - how to?

"Gurpal S. Bhachu" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:38:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.mad.user
Message-ID <000101c365d9$71b82cf0$0a00a8c0@p3>
Hi,

I wish to capture the output of madplay to an external file eg:

$ madplay abc.mp3 -o abc.wav > abc.txt

It seems that abc.txt contains nothing! Is there some weird non standard
out thing happening here?
Please could someone advise how to do this...

Many thanks,
Gurpal