Well thanks so much guys! I really love the open source community. You really are so awesome to find the time to help guys in need.

@Peter: i will try ur suggestion. I still have to order the dongle by the way. I just needed to be sure the overall process of recording it in batches.

@David: I think ur idea is excellent too! I ll go with Peter's idea first.

@Jan: Well am not getting any attachment in your message.


On Friday, 25 August 2017, 21:19, "Graff, David E" <graff@ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:


Note to self: read the man page before acting on the "initial intuition".  Thanks, Peter!

  Dave G.
From: Peter P. <peterparker@fastmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 2:11:14 PM
To: sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [SoX-users] Recording in chunks using sox
 
* Eyob Yirdaw via Sox-users <sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net> [2017-08-25 19:08]:
> Hi all,
> I want to record 24/7 transmission of FM radios using DVB-T dongles.  I want to direct the input audio from some dongle to sox, eg. something like
> rtl_fm -f 88.8M -d 0 -M wbfm | sox -r 32k -t s16 - -t ogg device_0.ogg
> here am using the rtl_fm terminal program.
>
> Can sox help me save the continuous FM audio that comes from rtl_fm to be saved in some time length chunks, say 10 minute long chunks?It means that sox would write to disc every 10 minutes.
Perhaps look at the examples for the commands "newfile" and "restart" in
SoX's manpage.

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