Alban’s blog

For a long time, we’re using continuous recording tools to record our radio broadcasts. Many of these tools were homemade and alsa-backup is the latest project of this “serie” (after jack-backup and just-record).

alsa-backup can :

• record several channels,
• change record file according your naming policy (… without a blank),
• run as daemon,
• log into syslog,
• stop record and retry after errors

And many other features are coming This piece of Ruby code is more flexible than just-record. It uses the awesome ruby-ffi library which allows to use C libraries with few lines of ruby code.

alsa-backup is available as debian/ubuntu packages on Tryphon’s debian repository. Source files are available in GitHub alsa-backup repository.

Tags: alsa, daemon, debian, justrecord, loop, record, ruby-ffi, syslog, ubuntu

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