CLI Recording

[Daniel Hazelbaker]

Yes, as in bash.  i.e. something like:

record --device "Built-In Microphone" --duration 3600 output.aif

But as of yet, I have not found anything like the above that works  
with Core Audio.

Daniel

On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Dan Shoop wrote:

> At 2:49 PM -0800 3/9/07, Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:
>> I need a way to record from the CLI to an .aif (or .wav) from a  
>> specific audio device.  Reason being is we do timed recordings that  
>> we use as backups if our sound person forgets to hit record on the  
>> CD or there is a problem etc.  We do not want to depend on user  
>> intervention to click record.  Right now I use Linux, ALSA and  
>> arecord from a cron job to do this, but I would like to move to a  
>> Mac Mini running OS X.  Does anybody know of any software that will  
>> let me record from a cron job even if a user is not logged in?
>
> Whatever tool you use would be what has the specific command line  
> interface and options. So depending on which tool you use will  
> depend on what command line interface options are available.
>
> Do you mean a "shell", like bash, when you say CLI? In that case the  
> command invoked will be the command of the  audio tool doing the  
> recording.
> -- 
>
> -dhan
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