[OT] alsa compatible sound recorder?

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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I'm trying to rip some mp3s off some records (yes, vinyl) that I've got,
but I'm having a hard time finding a decent tool for the job.  I've got
the turntable plugged in to the Line In port on my Trident 4D Wave
soundcard, and I can play records and hear then (albeit faintly, even with
input volume at 100%) from my speakers.  However, I can't record anything.
I've tried wavr from the wavtools package, but it segfaults when I pass it
the -l flag (which tells it to use line in).  I can get wavr to work if
the turntable is plugged in to the Mic port on the soundcard, but that
port only supports mono, and the quality is poor.

I've also tried ecasound from http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/ which
is supposed to natively support ALSA, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
It just eats up CPU cycles with calls to 
sched_yield(0x401e5810, 0xbffffb30, 0, 0xbffffb30, 0xbffffb54) = 0

So, I'm stumped, and I'm looking for ideas for other tools to try.  It
would be cool if it was in .deb format, but at this point I'll try
anything.  Any suggestions are much appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Noah


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