Linux and audio >

You can use an audio loopback to record anything which your computer plays, but the audio quality is so bad.

Notes from:

• https://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/howto-record-soundcard-output-with-audacity-in-kde/

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070106074115/http://www.zeropaid.com/news/7502/How+to+Rip+Music+From+MySpace/

ecasound ∞

• 2007-05-27 on (distribution not recorded, version not recorded)

Overly complicated commandline bullshit. This one is simple…

rm -f filename.wav
ecasound -i:/dev/dsp -o filename.wav
xmms filename.wa

Blah, sounds bad

apt-get install jackit qjackctl

• https://web.archive.org/web/20190813132838/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8781

• https://ecasound.sourceforge.net/ecasound/index.php [ 1 ]

  • and https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/index.php
  • and https://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/index.php
  • https://alsa.opensrc.org/Ecasound

ALSA ∞

(ALSA)

• arecord

• Maybe you can copy devices in alsa using asoundrc

Whatever is recording from your sound card record what the sound card is outputting. This uses an analog loopback on the card, so it won’t be high quality:

1. AlsaMixer
2. tab (capture view)
3. Search for for “mix”

4. space to set the capture input to that

Notes ∞

• Check out Audacity for ripping.

Footnotes

1. was eca.cx/ecasound/ [ ↩ ]