Sox in Debian doesn't record to mp3, but it looks like a major part of what you want. If you start with wav or flac, you can do some basic editing before you make the mp3 file for the podcast. You will need the lame package to make the mp3 file. To make the initial recording, start with something like rec -q -r 44100 -b 16 somefile.wav or to save diskspace, rec -q -r 44100 -b 16 somefile.flac Press control c when done. Now you can use sox in various ways to fade in and out, increase or decrease the volume or add effects of various kinds. Sorry, my knowledge of more fine-grained editing is limited to Audacity, so hopefully someone else will have a better idea how to do advanced editing from the command line. Once you have the recording made, you need an mp3 file for the podcast. More and more people are using Ogg Vorbis for this, but mp3 still plays on more devices for some reason. If you have the server space, feel free to make both. Your Ogg Vorbis file can be made as simply as sox somefile.wav -C 3 somefile.ogg I'm using 3 as the compression (-C) level here, but you can probably set it as low as 0 and still have a file that sounds good. Since you can use sox to make the Ogg Vorbis file, your original recording and edits can be flac, wav or wv (wavpack), whereas the lame mp3 encoder only accepts wav, so your final edit will need to be wav, although your original recording and everything else in between can be flac or wv. And now to make the mp3 file. Again, be sure you have a wav file to encode, as Debian's version of sox has no mp3 support. Your command will look like lame -b 128 somefile.wav somefile.mp3 If your not using any music, you can use 64 for the bitrate (-b) option, and your mono mp3 file will still sound good. Hope this helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list