Record a PulseAudio sound stream

Ever wondered on how to record the audio from one application? Either the browser or a streaming application that don’t have the option to save audio to a file.

The PulseAudio sound server in your desktop makes this quite easy.

I’ve created a small script that captures the current playing sound stream and redirects it to FLAC audio file. After the capture is started, you can start playing sound from other programs. It won’t interfere with the current capture.

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