A digital logger system includes a multichannel interface circuit that:
1. concurrently and continuously receives audio telecommunication signals
for at least two telephone calls; and 2. continuously transmits linearly
encoded digital audio data representing the received audio signals. A
Universal Serial Bus ("USB") hub of the system receives the transmitted
digital data for retransmission to a USB root hub. A USB root hub of
personal computer ("PC") receives transmitted digital data, and executes
PC software which continuously monitors the digital data for embedded
line status and signaling information including a telephone line "going
off hook." When a telephone line goes "off hook," the software records
both: 1. an audio header that stores information about a telephone call;
and 2. an audio file that stores compressed digital data for the
telephone call.