Hi,

I'm curious, how would one go about recording sound from /dev/dsp? I know roughly how to save the data to a file:

$/dev/dsp >> file.bin

But how do I encode it, as say, a flac, ogg or mp3 while it is being recorded?

-thanks in advance

i would just use audacity to make it easy
you can also use the command line "arecord"
you could even try piping aplay through sox to get those different formats
but why bother when you have audacity so you can see what the heck is hapening

one extreemly important note -- you can't just record from a dump to /dev/dsp
not even using an old oss driver could you do that (only one think can access the device at a time) but since alsa is just faking like it's oss you can with alsa record from /dev/dsp
but you still have to use (enable) apropriate capture devices in the alsa mixer

thanks