Ripping protected audio

[Sy Ali]

On 5/31/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I can't figure out what you are trying to do.
...
> So is it playing through a flash plugin or something?

Yes, recording the audio played back via my browser and the flash plugin.


> You could just use 'arecord' to record from any alsa device.

I'll check this out.


> On many sounds cards alsa can record the output.  Run alsamixer, hit tab
> to move to capture view, then look for an entry named 'mix'.  If you hit
> space on that one you should set the capture input to that which should
> let whatever is recording from your sound card record what the sound
> card is outputting.  This uses an analog loopback on the card to do the
> work, so it won't be that great quality.

This is what I was doing - and so now I know why I'm not getting great quality.


> For high quality you want something like an sb live or related, where
> the capture choices include things like 'wave' which simply lets you
> record any pcm output that goes through the chip before it is converted
> to analog.  Not sure any sound card that doesn't use a fancy DSP can do
> that though.

I think I've got one of those laying around.  I'll see if I can find it.


> It should also be possible to setup copy devices in alsa using asoundrc
> although how one would do that I don't know, since I just use an sb live
> which doesn't require doing any software mixing or copying or any of the
> other stuff people use asoundrc for.

So it sounds like my choices are arecord, and then the other sound card..
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