Its been a while since i sent a message, but i had a dream, a nice
dream that was shattered, not because of this great listener software,
but because i bought special phone recored device to record some calls
for my customer service dept.... but what i did not know is that
connecting this device to the sound card produced an annoying hum....
BUT if i used a laptop and did the same thing without AC power it
worked great, so my question is does anyone have experience using
listener with a PC and phone recording....??
Thanks...
Rob...
kfallon@seneschal.com wrote:
I am attempting to record the audio
of a radio(s) for my local emergency management agency. I have the
radio
connected to the PC through the line-in jack of the sound card, and I
hear
the radio tarffic coming from the left speaker. I can set the volume
etc
using KMix, and this changes the volume appropriately. I'm using ALSA
drivers.
I had a small amount of trouble installing, as the /usr/local/etc sub
directory
was not created automatically, so I did it manually, and then reran the
install. I used setlistener to determine the proper threshold setting.
Using a setting of about 500, I could have it read "silence"
with the squelch closed, and "SOUND" with it open. I was feeling
GOOD>
I altered the listener.conf file to
match this new threshold, and altered the wav_path variable to point to
a drive with LOTS of room. I editted the correct file, as files are
saved
in this directory.
So what's the problem ? There are
two.
One is, I'm always recording. Oh,
wait,
I just fixed this some by choosing a value of 1000, even though I had
reliable
results at 530 in setlistener.
Two, the recordings do not seem to
have
anything in them. I think this is an encoding issue, as amarok shows a
bitrate of something like 14309798 kbps. That's not it ! If I transfer
it over to a windows box, real audio reports it to be corrupt.
Despite the difficulties, I'm quite
excited by the possabilities.
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