Capturing *any* audio in Linux - was: Re: Greetings from a newbie

[F. Rodriguez]

Brian Burger wrote:
> On 11/1/06, *Leslie Lewis* <lesliel8 at gmail.com
> <mailto:lesliel8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello, everyone. I'm Leslie from Canmore (no Mike jokes, now! I
>     don't even know a Mike here).
>
>
> But... but... but... that won't do at all. I'm afraid you're going to have to change your name, Leslie from Canmore. *Everyone* knows that everyone
>
> from Canmore is called Mike! Welcome to Ubuntu & Ubuntu Canada, anyway! 
>
>     I'm doing everything except converting Audible.com
>     <http://Audible.com> files to MP3 on Ubuntu.
>
>
> What format does audible use for their audiobooks? Unless it's
> incredibly obscure or (worse) something propietary, converting it
> should be fairly easy - check out Audacity for audio conversion, or
> another one of the several audio editing apps available.
If all else fails, vsound is your new friend:

Description: Virtual loopback sound recorder and real audio converter

 This program allows you to record the output of any standard OSS
program (one that uses /dev/dsp for sound) without having to modify or 
recompile the program. It uses sox to convert and save the raw data into
the desired file format and can help to convert real audio files to some
other non-proprietary format.

F.