'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 12/02/10 08:41 did gyre and gimble: > gst-launch pulsesrc ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! shout2send > mount=mountpoint.ogg Yeah I probably should have suggested this too. I think a very simple applet that sits in the tray and offers a very simple GUI around this command would be a useful little app. Would probably take someone about an hour of python hacking if they have the suitible skills. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]