Sound recording and producing CDs

Mathew Kanner mat at cnd.mcgill.ca
Sun Mar 28 09:00:52 PST 2004


On Mar 28, Jim Durham wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2004 08:52 am, Ben H. wrote:
> 
> I  cast my vote for Audacity. I use it all the time for recording a live band 
> and then editing the recording and saving it in .wav format. Then I use 
> burncd to burn the CD. These are both available in ports. Audacity is very 
> powerful and quite intuitive to use.
> 
> You didn't say if this was to be set up as a timed recording at a certain 
> time? If so, you might want a command-line style recorder that can be started 
> from cron. I have one here that I helped write that I could send you the 
> source for, or there is one in /usr/ports/audio that will work, but I forget 
> the name...readthe descriptions in /usr/ports/audio/* .
> 
> I  hesitate to comment on Rosegarden. I haven't used it in a long time. 
> It worked. It was a little rough. It may be much better now.

	Rosegarden is very dated (or at least the version in the
ports).  Last time I looked there was little hope to get a more
current version working on FreeBSD (I think they depended on Alsa).
	I've submitted PRs with for Anthem and it's dependcies, 

	http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/rci/sound/anthem/anthem.htm

	It's seems quite nice.

	--Mat

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