Daniel Andrlik on his Ministry of Intrigue blog has a great post about how to record your skype calls. HOWTO: Record Skype Conversations In Linux features a great bash script to use Lame and Sox to record Skype conversations.
Why is this useful? Well just one idea that springs to mind, it is half-way towards a workstation-based voicemail/answerphone for Skype users, another is to record interviews for a podcast. I tested it on Gentoo and just did:
emerge -p vsound sox lame
It told me that I had lame already so I just emerged vsound and sox. Other than that I just followed the instructions at Daniel Andrlik's post and Snapper Morgan's origital post, Recording your Skype Calls in Linux.
The script itself is downloaded in a tar archive.
<p>We are a developing team specialized at audio recording, named ourself
[redacted] team. We manage several software products. Two of them are
[redacted] and [redacted]. I think they are all good tools for Voip/skype
recording. And I would like to recommend the tools to you and your readers.
Follows the website URLs and introductions:</p>
<p>[redacted]</p>
<p>It is the perfect tool for podcasting, online journalism, conducting
business, and much more!</p>
<p>The program is compatible with nearly all VoIP clients, among which [Many
Win32 clients] were fully tested and explicitly supported. Other VoIP
clients, such as [More Win32 clients], are supported via simple user
customization. You can tune up all these IM and VOIP clients with single
installation of the software.</p>
<p>[Note, we do not support proprietary Windows-only software here, if you want
to donate £10,000 to the FSFE then I might run your advert, otherwise no
biscuit]</p>