[FFmpeg-user] I'm playing audio on my Linux PC from the WWW. Can I record it to a file with ffmpeg?

[Steve Kelly]

> I want to record whatever if playing on my PC to the PC's
> speakers, whether it's a stream, or whatever.  I don't have
> any ffmpeg console output to show since I don't know how to
> do this.
> 

Streamripper may be more suitable for you if that is all you want to do

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

Bins are available on most major distros, very simple way of saving an audio stream to an MP3 file.