I'm trying to record audio using Audacity 2.0.5 installed from SlackBuilds. My system is 64-bit Slackware 14.1 and a sound card is Intel HD Audio. I didn't change my sound system to OSS. (Default sound system in Slackware 14.1 is ALSA, isn't it?) First, I set Internal Microphone slider in KMix... (2 Replies)
I am having trouble understanding the difference between a passthrough device and a named device and when you would use one or the other to access equipment.
As an example, we have a tape library and giving the command
"camcontrol devlist" gives the following output:
akx# camcontrol... (1 Reply)
SFCONVERT(1)SFCONVERT(1)NAME
sfconvert - convert audio files
SYNOPSIS
sfconvert infile outfile [output options]
DESCRIPTION
The sfconvert command converts an audio file to another file format or data format.
OPTIONS
The following keywords specify the format of the output sound file:
format f
Output file format. f must be one of the following:
aiff Audio Interchange File Format
aifc AIFF-C
next NeXT/Sun .snd/.au Format
wave MS RIFF WAVE
bicsf Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File Format
smp Sample Vision Format
voc Creative Voice File Format
nist NIST SPHERE Format
caf Core Audio Format
flac FLAC
compression c
ulaw G.711 mu-law
alaw G.711 A-law
ima IMA ADPCM
msadpcm Microsoft ADPCM
flac FLAC
alac Apple Lossless Audio Codec
byteorder e
Output byte order. e may be either big or little.
channels n
Number of output channels. n is 1 for mono, and 2 for stereo.
integer n s
Convert to integer audio data. n indicates the output sample width in bits. s specifies the sample format and may be either 2scomp
for 2's complement signed data or unsigned for unsigned data.
float m
Convert to floating-point audio data with a maximum amplitude of m (usually 1.0). The integer and float options are mutually exclusive.
The following options take no additional arguments:
--help, -h
Print help message.
--version, -v
Print version information.
SEE ALSO sfinfo(1)AUTHOR
Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org>
Audio File Library 0.3.6 03/06/2013 SFCONVERT(1)