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From: myers@iname.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: /dev/audio questions: sound recording?
Date: 9 Jun 1997 17:34:52 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Thanks to many who answered my questions regarding digital audio
extraction, CD-ROM writing, and the 4Front OSS drivers.  I now have a
working and reliable audio system in my FreeBSD box.  Just one more
question: I'd like to use my soundcard to sample old analog audio tracks
(tapes and vinyl LPs) and write the data onto an audio CD.  I tried things
like reading from /dev/audio and outputting to a file, and this does work
in some sense (i.e., some kind of sound gets recorded), but how is the data
formatted?  Is there a better way?

Procedures for line-in recording would be greatly appreciated.

-David