[ale] (OT) event recording

[Geoffrey]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 09:55 am, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 
>>Uh. Michael and I are discussing this.
>><snip>
>>Another possibility is to go directly to digital via a laptop, sound
>>card, and mike? And I have an Archos Jukebox 20 hard-disk based mp3
>>player/recorder with an integrated mike. But the battery doesn't last
>>too long. Hmm. As I say, we're still discussing this.
> 
> 
> I'm willing to try something tomorrow night.  I think the audio input jack on 
> my laptop work, though I haven't tried it.  I'll try to scrounge up a mic and 
> record tomorrows meeting.
> 
> Can I get some recommendations for a way to record directly to ogg (or speex 
> or mp3)?  I don't think I have room for a full wav file of the meeting, so 
> I'd like to go directly to a compressed format.  I've never done that, 
> either.  I'm willing to try to set it up tonight for tomorrow's talk, but I'd 
> appreciate some advice.

Just played with 'rec' last night and it appears that it should be able 
to accept standard out as the output file, but I wasn't able to get to 
work.  If one could get it to work it would be possible to do something 
like:

rec - |gzip -9 > output.wav.gz

but, as noted, that syntax did not work.  rec/play are scripts that call 
sox in the event someone has some time to look into that.

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