hijack audio

[Claude Jones]

On Sun November 27 2005 7:41 pm, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:26 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Sun November 27 2005 7:18 pm, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:58 +0000, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 23:42, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > > > If anyone is familiar with the Mac program, Hijack, I'm looking for
> > > > > a Linux equivalent. It's little utility that allows you to capture
> > > > > audio streams. Anyone know of such? I'm googling, but so far have
> > > > > come up with nothing.
> > >
> > > Maybe audacity?
> >
> > Audacity doesn't record streams, as far as I can tell.
>
> I have not explicitly tried streams, but it does wonders for recording
> from the soundcard or playback/editing existing sound tracks.
>
> I like the suggestion of Kaffeine and I will look at that as well.
>
It works...just succeeded. I was playing an asx file so I gave it the 
extension .wm in the dialog, and it plays back in mplayer and xine just fine. 
Now I need to figure out how to convert it to something non-proprietary like 
wav or whatever...

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA