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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:58:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com>
To:        Ritwik Bhattacharya <ritwik@dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Recording from an audio cd
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980727015806.dburr@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <35BC29E5.4749600F@dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com>

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My secret spy satellite informs me that on 27-Jul-98, Ritwik Bhattacharya
wrote:
> Is it possible to use the mixer to record from an audio cd into a file ?
> xmix allows me to set the input device to cd, but I am unable to use
> mixer to record from it.

You should really be grabbing the digital audio data directly off of the
audio Cd, instead of recording it through your sound card.  You get much
higher quality :)

Take a look at the port /usr/ports/audio/tosha.  This will do it for you.
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