As an update, I've swapped out the PII-300Mhz machine for an 850Mhz Duron so I can try out a solution which involves creating a WAV stream but then directly encoding the WAV stream to a MP3 file. Its an Ecasound project, I found it here:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue94/yan-fa.html

I am altering the original project by using a single station radio and recording from Line-In (I only have recording needs on NPR). Otherwise it will be the same thing.

The guy who wrote the thing said that he wouldn't want to try it with less than a PII-450Mhz machine.

And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.

-- Bertolt Brecht

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