command line only audio recorder?

d4mo · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 430

I'm looking for a commandline only(no X dependencies) audio recorder that can record sound from the line-in jack. It would preferably save the file as an MP3.

ezod · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Windsor

A common solution is to record using SoX to stdout, then pipe it to LAME to encode it.

Example:

MostAwesomeDude · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 373

You can do the same thing with arecord, for ALSA recording.
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