On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Michael Kamleitner wrote: > thx Jan & R, ecasound & arecord both do satisfy my needs (going to give > arecord a try, looks much simpler than ecasound ;)! For simple use-cases, ecasound is just as simple: ecasound -i alsa -o foo.wav ... i.e. record from default ALSA soundcard and write to 'foo.wav'. And you might want to use Ecasound even for "simple" recording. Not to sound like a broken record repeating the same thing over and over again, here're some links to old messages&articles to explain my point :) ...: http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2004-June/013182.html http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00087.html http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/11/17/low_latency.html?page=last -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!