Re: [SoX-users] Newbie questions: recording win32

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

Andreas Mock wrote:
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>> It's been on my own to-do list for a while and I've finally got round to having
>> a go (see SoX CVS; type 'rec -n').  Its fairly low res. but better than
>> nothing.
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>
> Hi Rob,
>
> that sounds cool. As I don't have a win32 compile environment it seems
> I have to wait for the next win32 build.
>
> I don't know what the option '-n' will show, but the most important is that
> it holds the peak levels. I'm pretty sure you've done it.
>
> Thanks alot.
>
> Best regards
> Andreas Mock
>
>   
I just tried it out and its very cool.  Great job, Rob!

Extra clever of you to have "!" marks not extend the length of the 
meter.  Some minor cosmetic suggestions.  The "Samps out:" seems to me 
to look better with capital O.  And since space is limited, I'm not sure 
that "Samps" is really useful.  Some maybe just "Out:"?  Then you could 
use the extra space to add some whitespace or something like "|" to each 
side of the VU meter.

Andreas, the -n option is an option that lets you run rec but without 
writing anything to disk.  Just saves you from deleting the file 
afterwards or writing to something like /dev/null or NUL:.

Unfortunetly, Rob's VU meter doesn't record a "high water mark" that you 
wanted.  You'll just have to monitoring and adjust volume the old 
fashion way.  If you want a high water mark then you can make use of the 
"rec -n stat -v" output as I originally suggested as that is what it 
really is.

Chris