Hello, and thanks in advance.

I need to continuosly record audio from 4 fm radios, in 30 minutes chunks. For that, I have 4 FM analog radios, and 4 audio cards in the PC, with a minijack-stereo cable connecting them. Currently I'm using a MS-Windows program called TotalRecorder to record in MP3 from these 4 audio cards, but it hangs frequently -what a surprise, is windoze.

So I need an advice. Which program can be used to do this same task in Linux? I would rather prefer not to use any GUI, because that seems to make the server a little more fragile. I also can use any distro, but would prefer Centos since my other servers are Centos.

Audio quality can be mono / 32 kbps or something like that, because the source are news in FM Radio, not music. MP3 seems to be the best option to record because is widely supported, but in fact the record format can be anything compact that audacity can edit.

Thanks again,

Hi,

Okay this is a wild option, just bear with me...

Make 4 users, configure a recording software (sound recorder - light and simple) on a different sound card, let them record. Give these "users" access to a common folder to "deliver" the recording...

Admitted, it's a bit rough on the edges...but it's a humble road sign...

Luck

Thor

Provided you have selected your recording application... Simply start it 4 times with a different sound card as parameter.

You could write a simple script in bash which starts arecord, kills the pid after 30 minuttes. In the mean time arecord pipes its output in lame for mp3 encoding and writes it to a file.

You can easily start this process 4 times and run in parallel.

I have written such an application in a PHP script (also to record 4 radio channels for archiving purposes). It runs on a headless P-III 600.

jlinkels