Re: Recording audio

Well I work in Radio and we have to log everything we broadcast. I use
a combined command line recorder (arecord) to record what we
broadcast.

#!/bin/bash

export currenttime00=$(date +%H%M)
arecord -d1800 -r44000 -f cd -t wav /mnt/sda1/share/wav/$currenttime00.wav

and this will record everything going into the line input on a sound
card for 1800 seconds (30 minutes) and spit it out to a pcm wave file.
I haven't recorded more than an hour at a time... but I'm sure it
would work as long as the final wave file doesn't exceed 4 gig. (I
believe wave files can't be bigger than that).
I then convert the wave out to an mp3 for achiving purposes.



On 6/18/14, Aaron Singline <[email protected]> wrote:
> The best option is to have a redundant system.  So have more than one
> system recording if it is critical.  So if one crashes you can use the
> other.
>
> Audacity has been good at handling long recording sessions for me on
> multiple platforms.  I can't recall the last time it cashed.
>
> It all depends on what your setup is and what you are trying to record.  As
> for crashes I'm with Robin.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Robin Sheat <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> op 17-06-14 18:14, Worik Stanton schreef:
>> > I am dissapointed there is not a simple utility for recording that only
>> > records.  It is a crucial step and for recording live (which I do a lot
>> > of) it must not go wrong.  There is no second chance.
>>
>> You never explain really what does go wrong. No one can tell you what
>> might be going on without that.
>>
>> Robin.
>>
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