PVR-like Software for Audio Streams?

JonToycrafter asks: "I'm a dispatcher for a volunteer ambulance corps. We often get our calls by listening to the police scanner. Unfortunately, it's sometimes difficult to understand the street address that the police dispatcher is saying, or sometimes s/he mentions the address before giving an indication that EMS is needed. Does anyone know of a (preferably Free) Windows (or Linux) program that would allow me to connect my scanner to the mic jack on my PC and be able to pause/rewind the stream, a la Tivo?"

Comments

Re:Another approach here, simpler

[TykeClone]

Could it be that he is an ambulance chaser instead of an ambulance dispatcher?
I volunteer as an ambulance driver, and apparently the hardest skill known to 911 dispatchers is that they don't need to eat the microphone when sending a call out. Some are worse than others, but many times we do need to call in for address verification.

If they want you there, they'll call you...

[ivi]

I find it odd that you guys have to "intercept"
police radio calls to get your taskings...

It's standard procedure - in most places - for
emergency services to ring (a.k.a. "respond")
EMS or ambulance(s) as required.

They wouldn't, as a rule, expect the EMS or ambo's
to spend all their time monitoring other services'
radio frequencies.

For one thing, it can increase your levels of
fatigue (although - admit - it can feel exciting
to follow incident progress along by radio...
a bit like armchair quarterbacking, eh? ;-)

If your service is well & truly needed & respected
you should be able to get call-outs, just like
police & firefighters.

If not, well... raise your game. ;-)

Super.

[_aa_]

Since there seems to be little interest in solving what appears to be a life threatening problem, I will issue a challenge to all developers to make one. This would not be a complex application. In fact the pausing could be done with a simple shell script. I'll start working on a perl one tonight. Please reply with code.

Whoever replies with the best software Personal Audio Recorder gets a grand slam breakfast at Denny's on me.

Re:A Half-assed but effective solution

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the deal with your sig?
"void main()
{
printf "Jorkapp is a Programmer";
main();
}
"

1. Main should return something, not be void. (still functions in most compilers however)
2. Main should take the amount of arguements, and the arguements themselves. ie: int main ( int argc, char *argv[]). Still functions in a lot of compilers, but incorrect technically.
3. You got the brackets correct!
4. Your printf line doesn't compile. It should be printf("jorkapp is obviously *NOT* a programmer";
5. Recalling main to loop. Legal, but WHY? Why not just a while(1) loop? This is purely a style question. Legal.
6. Another correct bracket.

So, to sum it up, you managed to take the worlds easiest program, and screw it up. You aren't really a programmer are you?
Admit it and we'll go easy on you.