Come on guys! We need better than that. And the suggestion to use of ardour remotely was a good start. I often need a recorder which records continuously to a 20 minutes file. When I come from a coffee and radio finishes playing a good song, I may just press a button and recording starts at 20 minutes past. Nothing missed. The same for TV/video. And what if disk comes full? How your simple recorder can switch the file? And what is the file size of the largest file? E.g., "ls" command in my Linux stops listing files larger than ~2 GB. Ardour as a recorder wonders me: does Ardour add a dither noise to the recording? The audio card may already add the dither and second dither only adds to the noise. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software