Recording Line in from the command line

[kilowattradio]

I need to record the Line in on a iMic system to a file. I have lame and vorbis OGG installed via Macports. What command would I use to grab the line in audio so that the program could record the line in audio in the format I want to save it in?

lame [options] foo.mp3
oggenc [options] foo.ogg

Thanks for any tips or pointers to accomplish this task. I know there are Mac GUI tools to do this, but I need command line tools so I can do some manipulation and automatically forward the audio file.

 

[kainjow]

Check out SoX

You can record via

sox -d file.wav

Of course it supports lots of other formats and options.

 

[kilowattradio]

Thanks, I forgot about SoX, I used it about ten years ago.