[linux-audio-user] sound recording application

[Dave Phillips]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>glauber alex dias prado hat gesagt: // glauber alex dias prado wrote:
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>>i was wondering isnt it best to have a compressed output like ogg or
>>flac? i dont have such experience but how much of GB are we talking
>>about with 4 hours of uncompressed audio?
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>If you use ecasound as I recommended (and not the much less reliable
>arecord that's all the rage in this thread's recent mails), you can
>just replace .wav with .ogg in your command line and you will get a
>compressed ogg-file recording instead. Same with mp3, if you have
>configured an encoder in ecasoundrc.
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Agree++ with Frank, ecasound is the superior recommended choice. 
1st-rate audio software for the Linux console.

Best,

dp