Questions tagged [audio-recording]
Audio recording is the process of capturing data or translating information to a recording format stored on some storage medium, or can be used to refer to stored data itself.
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linux arecord: capture sound card output rather than microphone input
I am trying to capture sound card output and encode it in Vorbis ogg format using the following command:
arecord -f cd -t raw | oggenc - -r -o file.ogg
However, the computer's microphone input is ...
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How to Record Both Mic Audio and Speakers while using headset
I'm trying to record my screen with sound at the same time, but right now, my jack stopped working (it's with the red light) and I have to use a headset so that I can have sound on my Mac.
So my ...
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How to record a mp3/m3u stream using VLC?
How do I capture/record directly from a MP3/M3U stream of a radio station, using VLC player, setting up VLC via its graphical user interface (GUI)?
I prefer the Windows version of VLC but ...
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How to generate a sine wave with ffmpeg?
I would like to generate an audio file with a sine (sinusoid) wave with FFmpeg. I know there is a sine filter but that's as far as it goes.
I tried:
fmpeg -filter "sine=48:1:5" -c:a pcms16le test
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How can I record audio from the microphone with ffmpeg?
I need a way to record sounds from the microphone with ffmpeg. How can I do it ?
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How can I record audio output from command line in Linux?
I want to record the output of audio to an mp3 file. What tools and commands can I use in the Ubuntu Linux terminal?
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how to merge audio using ffmpeg, not concat
I want audio files to be merged and be the length of the longest one of course.
Not to concat them, which means adding one behind the other.
I tried googling since yesterday night, but didn't found ...
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Recording microphone and computer audio at the same time in Windows 8
How can I make my computer record computer audio and microphone audio at the same time (stereomix or otherwise).
I've tried to set up defaults several ways and none of them seem to work. I'm using a '...
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Skype: How to record a podcast?
I am doing a podcast with some friends. We are planning to do this by getting onto a Skype conference call and discussing our topic.
Is there a way to record this Skype conference conversation into a ...
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Is it possible to record audio from just one application on windows?
I want to be able to record audio from a single application running on Windows 7
So for example, If I want to record application A, and my internet browser plays a noise from a advertisement, the ...
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What can I do to enhance MacBook Pro internal mic sound quality in iMovie?
After using MacBook for two years, I bought 17'' MacBook Pro.
I'm pretty happy with it, performance and all, but I also was going to record some music videos for YouTube. I play guitar and sing.
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How do I record sounds directly from my sound card?
I want to record a sound that comes from a program in my computer, directly from my sound card, not using a crappy microphone to record it!
I was able to do this easily on Windows XP by ...
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How can I record audio to wav format?
When I use Voice Recorder, it always saves it as a .m4a, but I need the file as a .wav.
I know it is possible using Sound Recorder in Windows 7, but Windows 10 seems to use a different program.
Is ...
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How to record sound 24/7
I want to record sound from a particular microphone on a Windows 7 for an extended period of time.
The computer is on 24/7.
How can I achieve this?
Background
My neighbor is causing problems saying ...
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How do you record a Skype conversation on Windows? [closed]
Is there an app or plugin for Skype to record a conversation?
Or can you use an audio application like Sonar or Sony Vegas Studio to do this?
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How can I record system sounds (apps) in Audacity?
Or another similar program? All I want to do is record the sounds coming from say firefox, or any other app, for use as samples in music. I need to do this in both windows and linux (ubuntu 9.10).
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How can I remove noise from an audio recording?
I used to record important technical meetings and demos using Camtasia Studio, using a Mic to capture the speaker voice.
Sometimes we invite attendees by asking them to call us in the meeting, and ...
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Screen recording using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -i desktop output.mkv
I use this command and I have two questions:
My screen allows full-hd, but seems like output.mkv in bad (not full-hd) quality. How to record ...
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How to record 10 seconds of audio with SoX?
I want to record 10 seconds of audio from my microphone input with SoX. I haven’t found any example in the documentation or elsewhere that would show how to do it. Here’s my current command using ...
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Recording speaker output on MacBook with OS X Snow Leopard
Does anyone know a way of recording speaker output on a MacBook with OS X Snow Leopard? I have written a program that generates music, and just want to record its output.
I do not have a feedback ...
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How do non-realtime OSes capture audio without dropouts when sample rates are so high?
If I plug a line or USB microphone into my PC, I can record audio at 44.1kHz. That's one sample of audio about every 23 microseconds. The audio wave must be sampled and played back precisely or it ...
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Audacity: Assign left channel to both channels in mp3 file
I'm using Audacity 1.3.12-beta on Mac OS X 10.6.7. In a band we recorded a couple of songs - in mono - and I converted them to mp3 files right away. And of course, I deleted the recordings immediately ...
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Any program can record your singing or humming, and then create the musical notes of what you sing?
I am looking for a program that can record a melody, that is record the humming of my voice and then convert said melody into the musical note version (akin to the sheets of music a pianoist uses).
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Convert a cassette tape recording to digital format
Has anyone been successful with transferring audio cassette tape recordings to a digital format? I would like to preserve old cassette tape recordings of my grandparents to some digital format: MP3, ...
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Windows 10 laptop is filtering out any recorded music on any microphone
My Windows 10 Alienware laptop is filtering out any sound that isn't "voice-like" when recording on any microphone. I'm confident that this is some sort of noise-blocking enhancement feature ...
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Recording Skype conference calls on OSX? [closed]
I am looking for an open-source way to generate an audio record of Skype conference calls under OSX 10.5 or higher.
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how to record mic input and pipe the output to another program
Hi everyone Im trying to follow a tutorial on generating truly random bits
How To Generate Truly Random Bits
This is the command from the tutorial but it does not work
rec -c 1 -d /dev/dsp -r 8000 -...
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How can I capture the audio output with GStreamer?
I’d like to capture only the output of a machine using GStreamer.
Using the following command:
gst-launch-1.0 -v alsasrc ! wavenc ! filesink location="output.wav"
I can record the microphone, but ...
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Access microphone with gphoto2
There is a lot of documentation for using gphoto2 to use a DSRL as a webcam. With those techniques, the system sees the camera as a new video device
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -...
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How to stop recording after x minutes of silence in Audacity?
I am using Audacity to record sound from webinar recordings.
There could be a few minutes of silence during the webinar.
I want to set up Audacity to stop recording
the best would be after, let's ...
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how to hide sound recorder in windows 7
I want to record sound on a Windows 7 computer using software called Sound recorder.
My question Is there any way to hide it
even i did that : Open windows Task Manager (Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and ...
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How to extract clear voice from a noisy audio file?
I have some noisy audio files, which are voice recordings or lectures. There is no music, but the recordings are noisy.
Sometimes, the voice is not clear. Is there any software that can extract the ...
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Audio recording background noise
For a long time time I've been trying to get rid of the background noise that appears in every audio recording I make with my computer. Tried different microphones, different sound setting, drivers.
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Adjusting audio with varying loudness (recorded talks) with FFMPEG
I have to 'adjust' some recordings of lessons I've attended. The professor was walking here and there but my recorder was in a fixed place; now I have audio tracks going from loud to whispers. How can ...
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Microphone gets recognized by windows and driver software but other software doesnt recieve input
All of a sudden my microphone stopped working on all Desktop Software in Windows 10. I have reinstalled all related drivers and updated anything that was needed. When I am in the driver software (...
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Converting hundreds of tapes to MP3
I know that devices exist which can convert cassette tapes into MP3s via USB.
I have hundreds of tapes which I'd like to convert.
Are there any devices which can do this in a batch style - i.e. put ...
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Recording Audio from Radio Stream
I'm sitting here listening to a radio show that is being broadcast live over an internet stream, but I would like to keep bits and pieces for later-enjoyment. Is there a way I can easily record ...
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How to Record both Mic and Speaker Audio in Windows 7
I am wondering how would I be able to record just the audio coming out of my speakers, or in my case my headset, and the audio coming into my mic at the same time? I do not want to record any video. ...
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How do I use JACK with OBS Studio on Windows?
I recently wanted to use OBS Studio to record game footage while playing with a friend, though that friend doesn't want his voice to end up in the recording.
The thing is, OBS Studio cannot record ...
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Adding date stamp to vlc recorded streams
I have few bat files created to record my favorite audio streams but I would like to include the dates in the output file.
Is there a way to include the date in the output file name with the code ...
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"Stereo Mix" produces very distorted, near to unrecognizable output
I'm on Windows 8 RTM x64, using the designated Realtek Drivers.
Sample: http://puu.sh/1HVew/a12007f54a01896920b954c792fe991b (Yes, this was once music)
This is not just random noise, the output is ...
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In an audio recording of a lecture, can I reduce the volume of my typing while preserving the volume of the lecture?
I'm playing around with using OneNote 2013 to record some of my lectures. I really like the feature that links the time I wrote each paragraph in my notes with the time in the recording. However, the ...
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firewire emulation for virtual machines
As is well known by people that have the joy of having a FireWire professional audio interface, virtual machines (VirtualBox, VmWare, etc.) cannot access FireWire devices.
I'm wondering if there are ...
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How can I download audio from Google’s sample text-to-speech?
I would like to be able to save the audio from the sample from Google’s cloud-based text-to-speed service. Is it possible to do this?
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Can you recommend a good replacement for Windows Sound Recorder? [closed]
Can anyone recommend a good, free replacement for Windows 'Sound Recorder'?
Requirements:
Very quick to load and run
Allows saving to a compact sound format (e.g. MP3)
Allows long recordings (1+ ...
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How do I make my voice recording sound more professional using GarageBand?
I recorded my voice with GarageBand but it sounds very dirty and amateur.
I'm looking at a GarageBand tutorial to learn how to make the recording sound a little more professional and clean.
I use ...
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Good software for recording podcasts on the Mac (OSX) [closed]
I'm looking for a piece of simple software that'll allow me to easily :
Record Audio
Perform basic editing (cut out a section, increase the volume)
Save to MP3.
People talk about Audacity, but I ...
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How do you enhance volume in an audio file?
My friend recorded an interview session he had via Skype?I dont know what software he used to record the audio,but the final output was a wma file.Its only later when he played the audio he realized ...
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How can I repair a broken 3GP/MP4 file without a moov header?
I was recording audio two days ago and my phone suddenly died while doing so. I used MP4repair and a short clip of sound could be heard and they would be charging $80 to recover it. I thought it was ...
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Record multiple tracks from multiple audio sources at once
I’m looking for a software that is able to record multiple audio sources at once in realtime. I have three sound sources (two sound cards, and one loopback source) I want to record from and mix them ...
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