From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 28 09:00:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE1F16A4E0 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (hak.cnd.mcgill.ca [132.216.11.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20ECC43D1D for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2SH3UK0093216; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:03:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id i2SH3USG093215; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:03:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:03:30 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: Jim Durham Message-ID: <20040328170330.GB92149@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20040326135246.55339.qmail@web41605.mail.yahoo.com> <200403280013.33993.durham@jcdurham.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403280013.33993.durham@jcdurham.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: I speak for myself, operating in Montreal, CANADA X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.62 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.62 (2004-01-11) on hak.cnd.mcgill.ca cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org cc: "Ben H." Subject: Re: Sound recording and producing CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:00:52 -0000 On Mar 28, Jim Durham wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 08:52 am, Ben H. wrote: > > I cast my vote for Audacity. I use it all the time for recording a live band > and then editing the recording and saving it in .wav format. Then I use > burncd to burn the CD. These are both available in ports. Audacity is very > powerful and quite intuitive to use. > > You didn't say if this was to be set up as a timed recording at a certain > time? If so, you might want a command-line style recorder that can be started > from cron. I have one here that I helped write that I could send you the > source for, or there is one in /usr/ports/audio that will work, but I forget > the name...readthe descriptions in /usr/ports/audio/* . > > I hesitate to comment on Rosegarden. I haven't used it in a long time. > It worked. It was a little rough. It may be much better now. Rosegarden is very dated (or at least the version in the ports). Last time I looked there was little hope to get a more current version working on FreeBSD (I think they depended on Alsa). I've submitted PRs with for Anthem and it's dependcies, http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/rci/sound/anthem/anthem.htm It's seems quite nice. --Mat -- sig machine broken