Hello, All: ????? Is it feasible to do real time monitoring of streaming audio with R, writing a compressed copy of what's read to 1-hour long MP3 files? ????? I'm a volunteer with a community radio station (kkfi.org).? My minimum requirements at the moment are to create MP3 files from what we broadcast.? I have a tuner hooked to the audio input of a computer.? I can listen to it in real time using the computer audio output jack, and I can record it manually using Audacity.? If I have MP3 versions of both what we send to the tower and what is actually broadcasted, I can read the two into R, compare them, identify substantive differences, write appropriate descriptions to files, send emails, etc.? I don't know how to sample the live stream. ?????? I know it can be done in Python, but I don't know how, and I'd prefer to use R.? I suspect it can be done with ffplay, part of ffmpeg, but again I don't know how. ????? Thanks, ????? Spencer Graves