Command line sound recorder for Mac OS X

[Fearghas McKay]

On 26 May 2007, at 23:23, José Pedro Sousa do Amaral wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a program that could be activated as a cron job to  
> record sounds at given intervals. I am trying to plan a recording  
> station out of an Apple TV. The sole function of the device would  
> be to record a few minutes of sound with certain periodicities.
>
> Today, I dabbled a bit with sox. I compiled liboss, audiofile,  
> esound, and sox but could not get sox to record.
>
> Do you have any suggestions? I confess that I would prefer not to  
> use AppleScript.

Sounds like a case for Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro - it will mean  
using the GUI, but it does what you want out of the box.

http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/

There is a lite version as well that is half the price.

	f