Re: How do create a dummy device for recording audio? Does it exist already?

[Caleb Crome <alsa@crome.org>]

StreamRipper:  Close, but no cigar.  That only works for MP3 streams, 
not for other streams, such as RealPlayer.  I have looked at 
streamripper before and it doesn't do what I want as far as I can tell.  
In the case of RealPlayer, the audio goes from Real->PCM->MP3, which I 
admit isn't great for audio quality, but I don't really care, I'm not 
trying to listen to music.  In fact, that would be an extraordinarily 
hard way to get music.  I actually want it mainly so that I can record 
NPR constantly and have 30 minutes blocks automatically encoded and 
sitting on my hard drive.  Then when I come in to a show half way, and 
what to hear the whole thing, I just grab the files and burn them to MP3 
CD.  Then I can listen to CarTalk or whatever whenever I want, on my 
terms. 

Paul Davis wrote:

>>1) Open my Player, tune to my favorite station. Use my new device for 
>>audio output.
>>2) do something like:  dd if=/dev/audiocapturepcmout count=xxx | lame 
>>--output myfile.mp3
>>    
>>
>
>streamripper is a much better option for this. its specially designed
>for this task. you are also talking about mp3->PCM->mp3 conversion,
>which is not very nice for audio quality.
>
>http://streamripper.sf.net/
>
>--p
>
>  
>



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