[LUNI] recording audio to cd

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Wow, thanks for that reply Richard. 

I will try record and see if it will even work underneath jack. 

Great reply !!



Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Mon, December 11, 2006 6:59 pm, Mark Stuart Burge wrote:
>   
>> Any suggestions for recording about 30min or more of audio through
>> jack
>> + jamin and then burning the result to cd in a few simple steps ?
>>     
>
> I don't know nothing about jack or jamin, but I do record audio for
> hours on end every night with Linux...
>
> We pretty much just use "record" which is a command line tool that
> takes the audio straight from the sound card to the hard drive at CD
> quality.
>
> It's pretty much a no-brainer:
> record -o filename
>
> You get an ASCII art 2-channel output of what's going to the hard drive.
>
> You can skip to a new file by hitting "N" so you can turn them into
> tracks on the CD.
>
> After you quit, you'll have:
> filename000.wav
> filenamn001.wav
> filename002.wav
> .
> .
> .
> with a new file number for each time you hit "N"
>
> Then just use "cdrecord" to burn the CDs -- or "burncd" I think also
> works fine.
>
> cdrecord is a bit involved, in that you have to specify the CD drive
> and you have to give it permission to "pad" the audio files out to an
> even multiple of [mumble some silly number] so it can be a RedBook CD:
>
> cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -pad -eject filename*.wav
>
> dev will be like 0,0,0 or 0,0,1 or 0,0,2 or... 0,0,7 or 0,1,0 or 0,1,1...
>
> It's the SCSI system of numbering.
>
> Ooooh.  And you have to add the Linux ide-scsi thingie.
> /sbin/insmod ide-scsi
>
> But that's a "do it once and forget it" type of thing.
>
> Note that the -pad option will add some digital silence to the audio
> files to "pad" them out to make them the even multiple required by
> audio CDs.  I think newer versions of "record" might have a "T" key or
> something where it will force the break to happen at an even multiple,
> so that no padding is needed...
>
>
> I believe I have linked to all of these tools and have a bit more info
> here:
> http://uncommonground.com/sound.htm
>
>   
>> I am currently using ardour, but it involves too many steps to get to
>> the wav file.
>>
>> Tried timemachine (great program, but saves data in an uncommon form
>> of
>> wav or w64 file which seems incompatible with k3b or gnomeburner)
>>     
>
> Is w64 64-bit wav???
>
>   
>> Audacity is still problematic with Jack (at least on ubuntu it is)
>>
>> Rezound stalls trying to redraw the waveform on large files.
>>
>> Maybe there is a command line option where I can convert from w64 to a
>> raw file and then burn it ?
>>     
>
> sox would almost for sure convert w64 to regular wav.
>
> sox converts damn near any audio format to whatever you want.
>
>   
>> Would be great if the burning software could include an option to read
>> from an audio stream !
>>     
>
> This would generally lead to buffering overrun/underrun problems
> somewhere in the chain...
>
> Maybe on super-high-end hardware with lots of tweaking and a ton of
> research, you can make it work, but I wouldn't recommend you head down
> this path...
>
>