How can I record sound from the windows command line?

Question

Is there an application capable of recording sound that I can run from the command line on XP?

Ideally I'd start it with one command and stop it with another. Or I could specify a duration with the starting command.

Answer 1

You can use SoX package.

rec recorded_track.wav 00:05

Records for 5 minutes.

More documentation on SoX manpage.

Answer 2

This is old but might be an alternative

LiveInCode

This program encodes live audio from line-in or microphone directly into Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Speex and other formats.

The current version only has built-in support for Ogg Vorbis and Speex. It means you can use any other encoders too, but for encoders other than Ogg Vorbis and Speex you'll need to manually specify the command-line.

Answer 3

Another Alternative:

• record from F2KO (freeware)

Advantages (IMO):

• Really small, 5,12 kilobytes
• Single file

Disadvantages:

• Only records it to a Wave file (.wav)

Sintax:

record [seconds] [outfile]