I need wine every day, but I never drink alcohol!
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Topic: I need wine every day, but I never drink alcohol!
started by: Reaubotte
Posted by Reaubotte on Feb. 22 2006,19:15
Hi there,I'm new to linux, but learning fast...
Somebody gave me an old celeron @ 300 Mhz with 32 megs of RAM.
I was wondering if i could use it for scheduled audio recording using DSL.
As a Window$ XP user i've got plenty of freewares for automatic audio recording and other stuff i'd like to keep.
I just want to know if i could use Wine on DSL for running these small utilities...
Tried the Slax Live CD, it has wine and I think it's great, but it need 64 megs to run.
Hope somebody can inform me about DSL, thanx!
Reaubotte from Paris, France
Posted by AwPhuch on Feb. 22 2006,20:21
Wine just like Windows is fat, bloated, and slow...(however can still run efficiently)What version of windows can run in 32Megs!!!!
I dont think that will work for you man, I recommend at least 128Megs of RAM (maybe less using DSL) but 32Megs of RAM and you will be sorely dissapointed
Just try to run wine in 32Megs..you may end up drinking alcohol in heavy doses afterwards
Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by Reaubotte on Feb. 22 2006,21:11
Right..I guess I'll end up spending (too much) money in my local computer shop buying
some extra Megs of second hand RAM unless someone has got a better idee.
Maybe there's some great audio recording freeware for linux that allows me to automatically record my favorite radio programs....
Any suggestions?
Posted by doobit on Feb. 22 2006,21:16
There probably is. There are a couple of DVR apps out there for Linux that would probably do what you want. You'll need to google for them though. An awesome straight audio editing app is available for DSL. It's called Audacity. You could probably even write a script that would make it start recording at a certain time after opening another app first. Xmms plays mp3 streams from web urls, so you could record the audio that's being input from that.
Posted by Reaubotte on Feb. 22 2006,21:44
Hmm,In fact I don't want to record audio streams but from my soundcards audio input.
I'm one of those old-fashioned guys that still uses stuff like *analog* radio equipment!!
And I'm hooked to my CoolEdit 96 wave editor (Demo without expiration date, only a few limitations **NO CRACK!**) which runs very well with Wine!
There's already a copy of Audacity sitting on my HDD, but it's doing nothing but taking space...
I'll try the script thing...
Maybe there's a soft for Linux that can do just the scheduled recording stuff without needing Wine....
I could do the editing part with CE96 on my second machine which i'm unable to reboot now because it's recording in the background
Tried google, but didn't find anything yet...
Posted by AwPhuch on Feb. 22 2006,23:37
I still would recommend getting more RAM....with a 300Mhz processor and light ram like that you are still suffering due to heavy swappage...if you could kick the RAM up to 64 or more your machine will seem more responsive...I would venture to bet by a factor of 2x-4x as fast!RAM is the key to linux...the more you have the faster that sucker will run!
With Damn Small Linux I would almost state the "optimum" RAM target level for older hardware is 64-128Megs...anything below that creates sluggishness, anything above that is just icing on the cake~
Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by brianw on Feb. 22 2006,23:41
Here are four links that deal with linux audio and recording. The first one is very simple and is probably what you want (just to record) and use CRON to set up dates/times to record or a script using the AT command to specify a time after a certain event.< http://aaron.birenboim.com/unix/audioRecording.html >
< http://karmak.org/2001/linux-audio/ >
< http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8857 >
< http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1511 >