[Flac] Encoding Streaming Audio -- Possible?

[Hal Vaughan]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 07:42 pm, Josh Coalson wrote:
> --- Hal Vaughan <hal at thresholddigital.com> wrote:
> > I've been reading the info on Sourceforge about Flac, but there's one
> > thing
> > I'm not clear about (and it looks like Flac may not support this
> > yet).
> > Before I installed it, I wanted to know if Flac would do what I need.
> >
> > I want to be able to record shows on the radio (I have a radio hooked
> > up to my
> > Soundblaster Live!).  From what I've read, Flac doesn't do that,
> > since it
> > seems it only encodes from pre-existing files.
> >
> > Is this right, or can I use Flac to encode the incoming signal from
> > the radio
> > and store it in a file?
>
> it can record from stdin.

I'm confused.  I saw this mentioned somewhere, but I don't understand how you 
can send an audio stream through stdin -- we are talking stdin, as in what is 
usually keyboard input from bash.  Any suggestions on a good place to learn 
more about this?


> there are some other programs that may be closer to what you're
> looking for, take a look at rawrec (http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/)
> or other progs on the links page:
>
>   http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#software

Great!  I'll check them out now.

Thanks!

Hal

> Josh