cdsound-recorder - a direct-to-disk recorder wich uses a soundcard to record and has additional controls for cdrom-players.

cdsound-recorder [options] filename

cdsound-recorder is a program to record samples, tracks or a complete cd to a file (or multiple file) with the use of the soundcard. This program solves a problem for all people with a cdrom player which does not read digital audio tracks, but can play these tracks on a soundcard.

-c nr

The number of channels to record. This can be 1 for a mono recording and 2 for stereo.

-s freq. in Hz

The samplerate of the recording. The higher the samplerate the higher the soundquality (and filesize). For CD quality 44.1 kHz can be used. Some cards even support a 48 kHz samplerate. Common samplerates are: 8 kHz, 11.025 kHz, 12 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.050, 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz.

-b 8 or 16

Force to play the sample in 8 or 16 bits per sample.

-k

Overwrite the file if destination file already exists.

-P

Use priority threading to set highest priority to the recording thread.

-A device

The device to use for dsp (default is /dev/dsp)

-e stmt

This command start a /bin/sh after every completed recording. The environment variable file contains the filename of the recorded file. This way you can record a batch and process the recorded files with other programs. NOTE: the statement must be one statement. This means that you must quote the string if it contains spaces or other special characters. (-e 'rm $file; sync' will remove the recorded file when completed and sync the disk).

-S mm:ss

When you want to record only a defined number of samples you can use this option. The recording is ended after mm minutes and ss seconds.

-f format

The output format is the type of file the data will be stored in. Possible formats are wav, pcm, cdr, ima3, ima4, ima5. The wav format is the default format and is not capable of storing additional information.

-t nr

The track start number for the recording.

-p nr

The track number of the last track of the recording.

-l list

A list of the tracks to record. The syntax of the list is a comma separated string without spaces. To record a range of tracks you can use a - mark between the start and stop track. So '1,3,6-9' is a valid list. br

-C

This command lets you record all audio tracks on a cdrom.

-O mm:ss

Is the offset in a track to start a recording.

-q

To record a track without showing the remaining time counter during the recording.

-D device

The device to use for cd-player (default is /dev/cdrom)

-M device

The device to use for mixer (default is /dev/mixer)

-Q

Quit recording all tracks when exec-error occurs.

-h

To display help on the available options.

sound-recorder(1), play-sample(1)

Bart Warmerdam

bartw@xs4all.nl