Command Line Audio

I'm looking for a simple way to record audio from the command line in OS X.
Is there a tool similar to record or arecord?

mac57 wrote:
Hi All, thanks for the responses. I tried out cmus, but it seems to want to operate in ncurses mode only. I couldn't find a way to do something like:
cmus filename &
and have it just play a file and go away. I am looking for something like that to play sounds as part of XFCE4 startup and shutdown sequences. Totally non intereractive, you just put the command into the XFCE4 scripts and voila! you get sound.
moc worries me. I run KDE too, and there is a moc already defined on my system, in /opt/qt/bin, which declares itself to be the Qt Meta Object Compiler. I figure I don't want to mess with that by installing something ELSE called moc. So, reluctantly I set moc aside.
That's why the executable is called mocp.
Btw, I admit I didn't read your original thread, only the title, and the answers.
moc / cmus / mpd+ncmpc are not what you want at all, these are full featured music players.

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Beavis2084

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Rasi wrote:
Wilco wrote:
Dieter@be wrote:I did not follow the discussion, but I just use wodim as specified on http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning_Tips, and that works great for me.
Hmm strange, I tried the same command as in my first post and it works fine with the real cdrtools but not with wodim (I also tried k3b and that failed too). So I just stick with cdrtools
Hooray, one more convert
I haven't really followed the discussion either but why choose an "emulated cdrecord" that doesn't work instead of the real program that works great?

[SOLVED] How to Crop an MP4 Video via Command-line?

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