this might almost be what you are searching for. no idea what you want to use this for, so i'm just guessing. http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/ On Tuesday 02 August 2005 16:18, lucas wrote: > hello one and all, > > i would like a linux daemon that is always running and always listening > to the microphone input of the soundcard and create a new file and > record into that audio file when there is sound coming through the > input. and say after a certain number of minutes of silence or so, it > will end the recording and keep listening. then when sound comes across > again, it will begin recording in a new file. > > i would like to have control over the sound quality to optimize space > and mp3 compression wouldn't be bad. > > someone suggested ecasound with scripting to get it done, but i have no > idea just how to do that. i am running redhat fedora 2, which has > esound-0.2.34-2 with also the devel package, and it recognizes the > soundcard fine because i can play mp3s out with xmms and record in fine > with a linux gui recording program. > > thank you in advance. > > lucas -- -- leonard "paniq" ritter -- http://www.paniq.org -- http://www.mjoo.org