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rec -c 2 -r 44100 -s -t wav - | flac - --sign=signed --channels=2 --endian=big --sample-rate=44100 --bps=16 -f -o file.flac
2011-08-30 03:14:32
User: bohwaz
Tags: record flac rec sox soundcard
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Record live sound from soundcard input to FLAC

You'll need to install sox and flac packages in Debian/Ubuntu.

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rec -c 2 -r 44100 -s -t wav file.wav
2011-08-30 03:13:05
User: bohwaz
Tags: record rec wave soundcard
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Record active input of soundcard to file.wav

You'll need sox package in Debian/Ubuntu.

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sox -t alsa default ./recording.flac silence 1 0.1 5% 1 1.0 5%
2011-03-08 14:36:39
User: sairon
Tags: audio record alsa speech
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SoX recording audio and trimming silence

Records audio from your mic in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) format, starts only after it detects at least 0.1 seconds of noise and stops after 1 second of silence. You can adjust the percent values (sensitivity) to best fit your microphone and voice (0.1% if you have a great quality mic, higher if you don't, 0% does not trim anything).

Useful for speech recognition in conjunction with my previous command titled 'Google voice recognition "API"' (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8043/google-voice-recognition-api).

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rec -r 44100 -p | sox -p "audio_name-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').ogg" silence -l 1 00:00:00.5 -45d -1 00:00:00.5 -45d
2011-02-17 08:55:01
User: FuFighter
Tags: record
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record audio and use sox to eliminate silence. Results an ogg file that only contains the audio signal exceeding -45dB

Very useful for recording radio scanner for instance as the resulting audio file contains only audio signal that exceeds -45dB and the file name tells you when the recording was done.

Why waste time listening silence? ;)

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alias burnaudiocd='mkdir ./temp && for i in *.[Mm][Pp]3;do mpg123 -w "./temp/${i%%.*}.wav" "$i";done;cdrecord -pad ./temp/* && rm -r ./temp'
2009-11-21 19:57:18
User: eightmillion
Functions: alias mpg123 rm
Tags: alias cd mp3 record CDDA burn
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Burn a directory of mp3s to an audio cd.

This uses mpg123 to convert the files to wav before burning, but you can use mplayer or mencoder or ffmpeg or lame with the --decode option, or whatever you like.

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ssh user@server | tee logfilename
2009-04-17 19:17:02
User: bassu
Functions: ssh tee
Tags: ssh output tee, record backend client side
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Record output of any command using 'tee' at backend; mainly can be used to capture the output of ssh from client side while connecting to a server.

Optionally, you can create a new function to do this with a custom command. Edit $HOME/.bashrc and add:

myssh () { ssh $1 | tee sshlog ; }

Save it.

At command prompt:

myssh user@server
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