Re: [linux-audio-user] very lengthy recordings

Have you looked at campware? It provides open source software solutions to
run radio stations:

http://www.campware.org/

Not sure if it supports the sound backup you are wanting.

A simple bash script calling arecord to save date and timestamped files for
a fixed duration should be able to do the job though (as long as you are
using alsa!).

something like:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
   arecord -d 86400 -r 44100 -t wav soundbackup`date "+%H%m%d%y"`.wav
done

(haven't tested this so it may not work, but you get the idea!)

James

On 12/20/06, Dan Easley <daneasley@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> please excuse the random spewing of ideas:
>
> i work at a radio station, and it would be awesome if i could record
> insanely long periods of time (for quality control).
>
> i'd love to be able to record 24/7, with new audio replacing old. a
> 400gig drive could hold two weeks of 16-bit 44.kHz stereo audio. how
> long could it survive constant writing?
>
> alternatively, are there any one-line commands that will simply record
> continuously to a series of files until a partition runs out of space?
>
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Received on Thu Dec 21 16:15:04 2006