Re: [listener] The Sounds of Silence

[Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>]

Is your pc's groundline connected?

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 04:43:47PM -0400, Rob wrote:
> 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...
> 
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> 
> kfallon@seneschal.com wrote:
> 
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>     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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Folkert van Heusden

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