Apparently, on Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:13:18AM -0600, Kevin Sookocheff wrote: For what it's worth, here is the script I use to "record" audio streams ----- begin script ----- #!/bin/bash stream="$1" outfile=$2 length=$3 mplayer -nocache -dumpaudio -dumpfile /path/to/save/to/${outfile} ${stream} & /bin/sleep ${length} /bin/kill -2 $! ----- end script ----- This mplayer command dumps the stream as it actually is so there is no re-encoding step and thus no diminishing of quality of something that is, most likely, already not high quality. The -nocache argument to mplayer isn't required and a cache might be helpful if your connection to the stream isn't too great. Assuming the script is called stream_rec_cron.sh, I run it from cron like this to "record" a show every weekday from 11:00-12:00. 0 11 * * 1-5 /path/to/stream_rec_cron.sh http://url.of.stream/ FILENAME-$(date +\%y\%m\%d\%I\%M).mp3 3600 > /dev/null 2>&1 The .mp3 extension on the filename can be changed to whatever format the stream actually is (ogg, wmv, etc) or just leave it off altogether. The 3600 is the duration of the recording, in seconds. There is no killall cron line necessary because the script itself handles killing the mplayer process (and only that mplayer process) when the duration specified as an argument is up. If like me, you may have several mplayers running (but paused), doing a killall could prove to be rather inconvenient.