SCAR - Simple Console Audio Recorder

Version 0.02

Description

    SCAR was initially created as a means by which to test the Audio::DSP 
    extension for Perl, but has since proved to be slightly more useful.
    As the acronym makes clear, it is a console-based utility for
    recording sound.

    At present, .wav is the only "non-raw" audio file format SCAR is
    capable of exporting, for which purpose it uses Nick Peskett's
    Audio::Wav extensions. I'd like to extend this capability to include
    other file formats, but at present there simply isn't much available
    in terms of Perl extensions (a "suite" of extensions for this purpose
    is, along with countless other pursuits, one of my longer-term goals).

    SCAR (as with Audio::DSP) was initially developed and tested on a 66MHz
    i486 system with 16M RAM, running Linux kernel 2.0.36 with OSS interface
    version 3.8.2.

Requirements

    * Audio::DSP - Perl interface to digital audio devices on
                   OSS-compliant systems.
                   http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/audio-dsp.html

    * Curses -     Curses extension for Perl.
                   ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/modules/by-module/Curses/

    * Audio::Wav - Optional; allows SCAR to export .wav files.
                   ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/modules/by-module/Audio/

Download

    SCAR Homepage @ PDA Music:
        http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/scar.html

Installation

    1. Edit the #!perl line of the scar executable (the file named
       "scar") to reflect the location of your system's perl interpreter.

    2. Copy the scar executable to the */bin directory of your choice
       (or to any directory, for that matter).

To Do

    * Implement hard-disk recording (currently, SCAR uses only the
      "memory-recording" methods in Audio::DSP).

    * Implement some sort of volume meter, or at least a primitive
      indicator as to how many times a sample "topped off" during the
      course of a recording (I hesitate to do this for the reason that
      it might render the program unusable on older, slower machines).

    * Extend audio file format support.

Author

    Seth David Johnson
    seth@pdamusic.com

Copyright

    Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Seth David Johnson. All Rights Reserved. This
    program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the same terms as Perl itself.