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Re: OT - How to save real audio files?



pseelig@mail.Uni-Mainz.de (Paul Seelig) writes:

> cyrus@linuxfan.com (Cyrus Patel) writes:
> 
> > This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering
> > if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my 
> > ppp connection just to listen to .ram files.
> > 
> You might want to consider this:
> 
> ------------------------ snip ------------------------
> Begin3
> Title:			paudio
> Version:		0.1
> Entered-date:		13JAN98
>
The site has obviously moved to "http://nwc.syr.edu/~jdimpson/proj/";
and the current LSM file lists a more current version of the sources:

------------------------ snip ------------------------
Begin3
Title:			paudio
Version:		1.0
Entered-date:		14JUL98
Description:            paudio allows a user to be able to copy whatever 
			data is currently being written
			to the /dev/audio or /dev/dsp (i.e., whatever is 
			being played to the sound card) devices into a file
			(or whereever). This is useful for preserving data
			that is being written to the audio devices but 
			can't be saved in any other way, usually because the
			program playing the data doesn't have a 'save'option
			paudio is implemented as a loadable kernel module,
			and the captured audio data is accessible through 
			the /proc interface
Keywords:		kernel module, /dev/audio, /dev/dsp, sound recording, sound grabber, /proc/audio
Author:			jdimpson@acm.org (Jeremy D. Impson)
Maintained-by:		jdimpson@acm.org (Jeremy D. Impson)
Primary-site:		sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/???
				   25 kb paudio-1.0.tgz
Alternate-site:		http://source.syr.edu/~jdimpson/proj/paudio-1.0.tgz
Original-site:		http://source.syr.edu/~jdimpson/proj/paudio-1.0.tgz

Platforms:		Linux (ia32, possibly any other platforms running OSS sound drivers)
Copying-policy:		GPL
End
------------------------ snip ------------------------

I've tried it out sometime last year and it even works to some degree.
Unfortunately the resulting sound gets quite distorted and would need
to be heavily reworked afterwards to get acceptable output.  Maybe a
talented hacker could enhance the current sources to deliver better
audio quality?
                                   Cheers, P. *8^)
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