From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 17:28:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B77F16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:28:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225EA43D1F for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:28:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (authenticated bits=128) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5JHQm0F048094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5JHR48s002436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i5JHR42O002433; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16596.30568.339062.771779@rosebud.alerce.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:27:04 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' Subject: recording from a dlink dsb-r100 usb radio. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:28:20 -0000 I'm trying to become sound savy. I have a D-Link DSB-R100 usb radio, and Sony Vaio PCG-Z505-JE laptop running: FreeBSD rosebud.alerce.com 4.9-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p5 #20: Tue Apr 20 10:02:23 PDT 2004 root@rosebud.alerce.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROSEBUD i386 I kldload the ufm.ko module, plug it in, and I can control it with Warner's (I think) little ufmctl program. It tunes, mutes, etc... just fine. In particular, it sounds perfectly reasonable for an fm radio. I'm trying to record stuff, and the results that I'm getting sound like crap. I've been using sox, in two configurations I cribbed from the web: sox -v 1.0 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp -w -r 44100 -t cdr - sox -t ossdsp /dev/audio -t .wav -r 44100 -c 2 - Both of them end up sounds lousy when I play them back in xmms, much worse than listening to it directly. Can anyone comment on how I might get better recordings? I'll happily supply more information on request (I'm not sure what else to supply though...). g.