how to record sound

[divakar]

In other words, what is the Linux equivalent of windows sound recorder which can be used to record through microphone?

[bwkaz]

Yay shell commands!

cat /dev/dsp >file.raw

Hit Ctrl-C to end recording.

Then use some sound converter program to convert "file.raw" to another format, like wav, ogg, mp3, au, or whatever

[ViMan]

You can also check out Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). You might also want to check out http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/354/ which discusses "Sound and Music Software" under Linux...

[divakar]

Thanks, guys, I have tried both the command line as well as audacity. I like audacity for now. I will be recording to wav and converting to ogg using the command line oggenc.