Recommendations: Simple Audio Recorder

[Patrick Bartek]

Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign language practice.  Commandline type okay.  Will be using a Skype-type headset with integrated microphone--two separate plugs.  Have found many audio recording studio programs, but don't need all that sophistication.  Tried a couple, anyway, but neither recognized the mike.  And, of course, recorded only silence.

Any suggestions?

B
Fedora12-64bit

[Tim]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 19:17 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign
> language practice.  Commandline type okay.  Will be using a Skype-type
> headset with integrated microphone--two separate plugs.  Have found
> many audio recording studio programs, but don't need all that
> sophistication.  Tried a couple, anyway, but neither recognized the
> mike.  And, of course, recorded only silence.

Well, for simple GUI operation, there's gnome-sound-recorder (if it
still exists for current releases of Fedora).  Though I use audacity if
I want to record anything.

You may need to play with the sound mixer, or multimedia preferences, to
set up the input that will be recorded.  Some sound recorders have their
own input selectors, others just record what an outside setting
dictates.

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Hi,

I would like to suggest one of my favourite sound recorders, it's name
is Pulsecaster. It's usable for podcasting, but records anything that
you say into your mic. No need to terminal, it has nice gui, and uses
pulseaudio directly. What I really like it's simplyness - there is no
too much bells & whistles, but it do the task.

Cu,

Zoltan

2011/2/3 Tim :
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 19:17 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign
> > language practice.  Commandline type okay.  Will be using a Skype-type
> > headset with integrated microphone--two separate plugs.  Have found
> > many audio recording studio programs, but don't need all that
> > sophistication.  Tried a couple, anyway, but neither recognized the
> > mike.  And, of course, recorded only silence.
>
> Well, for simple GUI operation, there's gnome-sound-recorder (if it
> still exists for current releases of Fedora).  Though I use audacity if
> I want to record anything.
>
> You may need to play with the sound mixer, or multimedia preferences, to
> set up the input that will be recorded.  Some sound recorders have their
> own input selectors, others just record what an outside setting
> dictates.
>
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[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Zoltan Hoppar  wrote:
> I would like to suggest one of my favourite sound
> recorders, it's name
> is Pulsecaster. It's usable for podcasting, but records
> anything that
> you say into your mic. No need to terminal, it has nice
> gui, and uses
> pulseaudio directly. What I really like it's simplyness -
> there is no
> too much bells & whistles, but it do the task.

Pulsecaster doesn't seem to be in my Fedora 12 repos or the, at least, the repos I have enabled.  But I did find its web page.  If I have to compile it from source, that's not a problem.

Thanks for the suggestion.

B

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Tim  wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 19:17 -0800,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in
>
> playback for foreign
> > language practice.  Commandline type okay.
>
> Will be using a Skype-type
> > headset with integrated microphone--two separate
>
> plugs.  Have found
> > many audio recording studio programs, but don't need
>
> all that
> > sophistication.  Tried a couple, anyway, but
>
> neither recognized the
> > mike.  And, of course, recorded only silence.
>
> Well, for simple GUI operation, there's
> gnome-sound-recorder (if it
> still exists for current releases of Fedora).  Though
> I use audacity if
> I want to record anything.
>
> [snip]

gnome-sound-recorder not listed in Fedora 12 repo, but that doesn't mean it's not available.

Tried audacity under Fedora 9, before I upgraded to 12, but couldn't get it to recognize the mike.  But I'll consider it as a Plan B.

Thanks for your suggestions.

B