1. Direct-to-disk recording and play-back programs. sound-recorder is a direct-to-disk recording program. It uses the recording input from the mixer on your soundcard and records it to a file cdsound-recorder is an enhancement to sound-recorder which makes it easy to record tracks or samples from a cdrom to a file. With the play-sample program you can play the recorded audio or play all other non-compressed and compressed wave-files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT