Perhaps it is more of a problem on this relatively slow system, where lame takes longer to handle its input than it might on a faster system. This is a 133 MHz 5x86 with only 16MB memory, and while it does a lot of things pretty well, it takes its sweet time about it! <g> Chuck. On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi Chuck: > > urrr. I don't. Never thought about that one. hmmm. yeah and I've seen > some programs get annoyed about files made this way. It's interesting that > aplay will play files recorded by arecord when it's terminated by > control-C, but the vocoder program I use for example doesn't like them. > > I don't know what to do there. You might do better with say record in the > sox package, but I don't know for sure. Anyone else with ideas? Oh I > guess you could kill the arecord process from another console, but I > haven't tried that. > > Geoff. > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh Winter will ask us what we did all summer.