Ripping protected audio

[Andrej Marjan]

On May 30, 2007 06:43:29 pm Sy Ali wrote:
> I've played with audacity and ecasound and both seem to be recording
> really terrible audio.

I'm sure Lennart knows how to configure the ALSA equivalent of a loopback 
device by heart, but until he replies, why are you trying to record the sound 
from your sound card instead of transcoding the audio stream? 

Have you tried playing the audio with mplayer and telling it to write the PCM 
out to disk?

For instance, I used the following to grab a Real Media stream from CBC a few 
weeks back:

mplayer -playlist 030407.ram -ao pcm:file=bo-lozoff.wav -vc dummy -vo null
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