I want to record a radio program that I access with mplayer but I'm not going to be home when the program airs. I want to either set things up so that the playing of the station and the recording start at the right time or, failing that, I could connect to the radio station before leaving home and just have the recording start at a certain time. I don't particularly need a stop time in this particular instance because I should be home close to the time it's over, but I might also need an ability to stop at a certain time in some cases. I could use cron, but I've noticed that sometimes when I start a radio station in my crontab--as I do for a wake-up many mornings--it sometimes then stops playing later on without any apparent reason, and obviously I don't want to come home and find a program half-recorded and then stopped. I thought I'd seen something about sox's rec or arecord doing this but I can't find anything about that, so maybe I saw it in some completely different package. can anybody tell me if there's a way to do this without having to use cron? Thanks. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
