Recording with Rec?

[Tony Baechler]

I have some questions for you.  First, is the audio that you want to 
record primarily online streams or do you want to record with an 
external source?  If you want to use a microphone or similar, I don't 
know what to suggest.  However, if it's mostly streams you want, just 
use MPlayer and have it output to a PCM wave file.  You can then use 
sox, lame or oggtools to encode to mp3 or ogg.  Also, if it's an mp3 
stream such as shoutcast, icecast or similar, wget should work nicely.  
If it's Windows Media, try mmsclient.  In the case of MPlayer, this is 
what I use:

mplayer -quiet -vo null -ao pcm file.rm

It also supports .asf and obviously online streams and playlists.  If 
it's an online mp3 stream, do something like this:

wget -b -i file.m3u -O file.mp3

You can also pass a URL instead of a .m3u playlist.  I have recorded 
streams for years this way.  Be warned that the wget method does not 
write proper mp3 headers.  I've never had a problem with the files 
playing, but technically they aren't valid.

On 2/9/2010 8:55 PM, Hart Larry wrote:
> By chance, are their better programs in non-graphical to record audio 
> from my sound-card?  Hopefully without always switching to root.
> I seem to have an mp3blaster, but in alsamixer, it is missing any 
> options for increasing treble, so I handle that in mplayer.