2014-05-14 I wanted to record a song from LP. Years ago, I would have used Audacity of ReZound for such a task. The reason was, that I had them installed on one multimedia machine anyway and because the typical trial'n'error approach has a high success ratio for them. As Dream, my multimedia machine, had died, I went for something different. There must also be a way to record from the command line, I thought. Thus, I had a look at `man -k record' and `ls /usr/bin/*record*'. The result was: arecord(1). I needed quite some time to understand how to use it, but then I came up with this command: arecord -c 2 -f cd -vv out.wav Execute it, watch the volume meter, kill it when you're done, that's it. Of course, arecord is no sound editor, thus you need to get everything (begin and end, plus the volume) right at once. Afterwards I converted the WAV to MP3 using: lame out.wav out.mp3 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke