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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: recording from line input
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I want to record audio from my sound card's line in.  I'm then going to
record the output onto a CD.  I'm familiar with writing CDs, but what's
the easiest way to get the input?  (To my surprise, cat </dev/dsp didn't
seem to work: when I send the result back to /dev/dsp I just got noise.)

-- Richard


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