Audio Recorder: An application to record and record audio on your system

Ever they had the need to have to record some audio internal system, microphone, video call or wherever, but with the help of the computer. Although this activity does not turn out to be something usual for the common user, there comes a time when this is necessary.

For this we usually resort to installing audio editing applications that help us in this, but installing software that has more than that function can result in a waste of space and time. For these audio recording tasks we can make use of Audio Recorder.

About Audio Recorder

Audio Recorder is a program incredible audio recording. This little tool allows the user to record atudio from microphones, webcams, system sound card, media player or browser, etc.

Can save the recording in various formats such as: Ogg, MP3, Flac, Wav (22kHz), Wav (44kHz) and SPX.

To which I assume that every so often we will transfer the files that are being saved to another medium (DVD, CD, USB, etc.) and we will always be protected against any requirement.

El program allows the use of system sound card, microphone, audio / video player or any application such as Skype calls or with any user interaction.

It can also be configured to stop recording if the output file limit that can be defined by the user is reached (either file size MB, GB, etc or by time)

The program it also brings a panel indicator for Ubuntu, from where the user can easily access some options such as: show and hide window, start or stop recording, and open the location where the recording is saved.

In addition, can manually set a timer within the Audio Recorder to schedule recordings and that the program starts, stops and / or pauses the recording in a certain time.

Between the features that we can highlight of Audio Recorder we find:

• System tray indicator that is available in additional configurations
• Record sounds from installed music player
• Record Skype calls without any user interaction.
• Output file format: .ogg, .m4a, .FLAC, .mp2, .mp3, .wav, .spx.

Un timer that:

• Start, stop, pause the recording at a given time, after a period of time.
• Starts recording when a voice or sound is detected
• Stop or pause "silent" recording
• Stop when the size of the recorded file exceeds a limit.
• Recording can be controlled automatically by MPRIS2 compatible media players.

How to install Audio Recorder on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?

Si do you want to install this application of audio recording in your system, we have the facility to we can do with the help of a repository which has support for various versions of Ubuntu.

To find out which version of Ubuntu you can run the following commands:

lsb_release -cs

lsb_release -rs

If still are using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS can use this repository to install Audio Recorder on your system, for this you must open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and execute this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder

Already added the repository, now they update their list of repositories with:

sudo apt-get update

And finally they install the application with:

sudo apt-get install audio-recorder

Yes now are using a version of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or higher they must use this other repository which can be added with this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audio-recorder/ppa

Now they must update their list of repositories with:

sudo apt-get update

Audio recorder install it with this command:

sudo apt-get install audio-recorder

How to uninstall Audio Recorder from Ubuntu and derivatives?

If you want to uninstall this application from your system they must do the following.

In a terminal they are going to execute this command to delete the repository that they added, for those that they installed in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder -r -y

While those who installed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and higher must execute this other command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audio-recorder/ppa -r -y

Now to finish the application the uninstall with this command:

sudo apt-get autoremove