I am always looking for the easiest way to do things but am also aware of that quotation which goes "The lazy man works the hardest." I want to play a file which is usually 8-bit audio at a sampling rate of 8000 samples per second, sometimes called raw 8-bit audio. If I hear something worth saving, I would like to copy that part of the stream to a new file and then stop the copy when the good stuff has passed, just like dubbing from one tape recorder to another. I just installed ecasound as it should be able to accomplish this task but the question is will mplayer also do this? The idea is one listens, hears something interesting to save, starts the recording at the right time and then stops it after the gem has been saved while the master continues to play. If a new treasure comes by, start recording again and save that in the same new file or maybe a series of files depending upon what one wants. Thanks for any suggestions. This audio is radio traffic so it doesn't need to be high fidelity. One usually wants the most audio crammed in to the least space. Thanks for all good ideas. Martin WB5AGZ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list