Hi, > If you use ecasound as I recommended (and not the much less reliable > arecord that's all the rage in this thread's recent mails), you can > just replace .wav with .ogg in your command line and you will get a > compressed ogg-file recording instead. Same with mp3, if you have > configured an encoder in ecasoundrc. Could you explain what you mean with "much less reliable" ? I often use arecord, and find it very reliable. I have never used ecasound, and since I often use arecord and oggenc in different settings, piping them together was the logical solution for me... And frankly, I find my arecord / oggenc oneliner (even simpler than I wrote in the first place, thanks to Paul Davis pointing out the -d flag) rather clear and straightforward. So, rather than learning a new application, I combine two I already know, including their command line arguments. And I could easily add other applications to the chain. arecord -f cd -d 14400 | oggenc -q 6 -o 4hours.ogg - arecord -f cd -d 14400 | lame -q 6 - 4hours.mp3 Anyway, as often, many ways to accomplish the same task! maarten
