[Klug-general] Linux Sound Programming

[Thomas Edward Groves]

I've been thinking about Peter Childs' problem which seems to be to carry
out a long recording
and then chop it into files each containing 15 minutes' worth of audio.

One tactic would be to launch an instance of rec recording into a large ogg
file and then use
ogg123 to chop this into 15 minute long chunks in wav files (ogg123 won't
output to ogg or mp3)
and then do a bulk convert to ogg or mp3.

Problems with this are: it's going to be big file and how do you stop the
recording.

Another tactic would be to have a program which spawns instances of rec
recording into mp3 and
then kills them every 15 minutes.
Problems here are: timing between instances and, as before, what's the
stopping rule.

All of this follows from the fact that rec runs until it's hit over the head
with cntrl-C.

Audio is a mess.

Tom Groves

Incidentally if this isn't the right way to respond to a thread then
a) I apologise and b) just let me know.