Free minidisc recorder software for linux

KHdRecord is an audio recorder which writes directly to the harddisk.

This enables recording of LPs.

Encoding MP3-files uses a lot of computing resources. This program requires a 350 MHz CPU minimum to run. Encoding Ogg/Vorbis-files uses even more resources. On my 1.4GHz Pentium it takes half of the CPU time.

The program directly accesss the sound and the mixer device. If you use it as non-root, these devices must be accessible for the user.

Because /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer are symbolic links on the most systems, the devices behind the links must be accessible.

On most machines this are /dev/dsp0 and /dev/mixer0. To give the devices accessible log in as root. Enter chmod 777 /dev/dsp0 and chmod 777 /dev/mixer0 .

FDMS-3 Ripper is a Perl program for extracting the tracks from the FDMS-3 filesystem. I recently bought a Fostex FD-8 multitrack hard disk recorder for recording music. It works great, but I was disappointed to discover that, although it uses a standard external SCSI hard disk, there was no way to "rip" the recorded tracks from the hard drive to my PC over the SCSI port. The alternatives were to use the analog-out to re-record each track using my soundcard (resulting in loss of quality and loss of synch between tracks), or buying a $500 ADAT card for my PC.

I decided that I would try to figure out a way to rip the music directly over the SCSI port. The FD-8 uses a proprietary Fostex filesystem, FDMS-3. I decided to hook it up to my PC and probed the drive. I was able to figure out the basic layout of the filesystem pretty quickly. Note: this is designed to hard disks formatted in the FDMS-3 "Mastering" mode, which stores the audio data in uncompressed format.

In order to use the program, you will need to take the hard disk that has the FDMS-3 filesystem on it and hook it up to your PC (mine is a SCSI drive -- dont know if this will work with one of the internal IDE drives you can hook up to the FD-8). Make sure that Linux can see the drive (dont try to mount it, though!). You might want to have a look at SCSI-2.4-HOWTO to get the drive recognized. My external hard disk is located at "/dev/sda", but yours could end up elsewhere.

Next, you need to make sure you have the following on your system: perl, sox and fileutils (for the "dd" utility). Security Warning Unfortunately, this program presents significant security issues, so be careful with it. The script needs to be able to access the hard disk directly, so you can either run it as root (not safe), or change the permissons for the hard disk device (in my case, "/dev/sda"). Run the program with "./fdms3rip /dev/sda" (substituting the actual location of your hard disk).

This will list all of the programs present on the hard disk. Then, run it again with the number of the program you want to fetch off the hard disk: "./fdms3rip /dev/sda 5" to get all of the recorded tracks for program number 5. After waiting a bit, you should now have a bunch of WAV files on your Linux machine. Warning This program will create and erase files with the names "dir" and "header" in the directory it is run from. It would be best to run this program from a clean directory, just to make sure there are no problems.

HTTP::Server::Simple::Recorder is Perl module for mixin to record HTTP::Server::Simples sockets.

SYNOPSIS

package MyServer;
use base qw/HTTP::Server::Simple::Recorder HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI/;

sub recorder_prefix { "path/to/logs/record" } # defaults to /tmp/http-server-simple-recorder

# logs to path/to/logs/record.34244.1.in,
# path/to/logs/record.34244.1.out,
# path/to/logs/record.34244.2.in,
# path/to/logs/record.34244.2.out, etc, if 34244 is the PID of the server

This module allows you to record all HTTP communication between an HTTP::Server::Simple-derived server and its clients. It is a mixin, so it doesnt itself subclass HTTP::Server::Simple; you need to subclass from both HTTP::Server::Simple::Recorder and an actual HTTP::Server::Simple subclass, and HTTP::Server::Simple::Recorder should be listed first.

Every time a client connects to your server, this module will open a pair of files and log the communication between the file and server to these files. Each connection gets a serial number starting at 1. The filename used is >, then a period, then the connection serial number, then a period, then either "in" or "out". recorder_prefix defaults to /tmp/http-server-simple-recorder, but you can override that in your subclass. For example, you might want to include the process ID.

qt-recordmydesktop is a recordMyDesktop GUI created in QT language for the KDE desktop.

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU/linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at its primary task.

As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.

gtk-recordMyDesktop is a GUI frontend for recordMyDesktop desktop capture application to be used on the GNOME desktop.

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at its primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.

The commandline tool (which essentially is recordMyDesktop), is written in C, while the frontend (gtk-recordMyDesktop), is written in python and pyGtk.

recordMyDesktop offers also the ability to record audio, along with video, without the need of any later proccesing or mixing.

Audio::Ecasound is a Perl binding to the ecasound sampler, recorder, fx-processor.

SYNOPSIS
One function interface:
use Audio::Ecasound qw(:simple);

eci("cs-add play_chainsetup");
eci("c-add 1st_chain");
eci("-i:some_file.wav");
eci("-o:/dev/dsp");
# multiple n separated commands
eci("cop-add -efl:100
# with comments
cop-select 1
copp-select 1
cs-connect");
eci("start");
my $cutoff_inc = 500.0;
while (1) {
sleep(1);
last if eci("engine-status") ne "running";

my $curpos = eci("get-position");
last if $curpos > 15;

my $next_cutoff = $cutoff_inc + eci("copp-get");
# Optional float argument
eci("copp-set", $next_cutoff);
}
eci("stop");
eci("cs-disconnect");
print "Chain operator status: ", eci("cop-status");

Object Interface

use Audio::Ecasound;

my $e = new Audio::Ecasound;
$e->on_error();
$e->eci("cs-add play_chainsetup");
# etc.
Vanilla Ecasound Control Interface (See Ecasounds Programmer Guide):
use Audio::Ecasound qw(:std);

command("copp-get");
$precise_float = last_float() / 2;
command_float_arg("copp-set", $precise_float);
warn last_error() if error();
IAM Interface, pretend interactive mode commands are functions.
use Audio::Ecasound qw(:iam :simple);

# iam commands as functions with s/-/_/g
my $val = copp_get;
copp_set $val+0.1; # floats are stringified so beware
eci("-i /dev/dsp"); # not all commands are exported

Audio::Ecasound provides perl bindings to the ecasound control interface of the ecasound program. You can use perl to automate or interact with ecasound so you dont have to turn you back on the adoring masses packed into Wembly Stadium.
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for audio playback, recording, format conversions, effects processing, mixing, as a LADSPA plugin host and JACK node. Version >= 2.2.X must be installed to use this package. "SEE ALSO" for more info.

PhonoRipper aims to be an easy to handle, all-in-one GUI tool for creating audio CDs from analog sources like vinyl records.
PhonoRipper uses Snack and Cdrdao (for CD writing). Features include a WAV file recorder with mixer and VU meter, automatic detection of track borders, and an intuitive dragndrop CD writing interface.
Main features:
- sound file recorder with integrated level meter and mixer
- large recordings can easily be split into several tracks ; track borders can be detected automatically or comfortably be marked in a graphical representation of the sound file.
- automatic normalizing of volumes of recordings from different sources for mix CDs
- intuitive dragndrop CD-writing gui
- integrated help browser
In addition with PhonoRipper you get :
- Snackmixer : another graphical mixer program for X-windows
- Snackrecorder : a simple graphical wav file recorder
- Snackplayer : a sound file player for X-windows with support for many file formats, like wav-, ogg- and raw- (binary) files.