Quickly record soundcard output in Ubuntu with OutRec

By , Published July 14, 2010

€œHave you ever wanted to record a sound heard from your computer or website?€ queries OutRec on their website  €œIf yes OutRec is perfect for you.€

logotype2The application is simple:  you can record everything outputted through your soundcard whether audio from a website of OS SFX from the computer itself. If it goes through the sound card OutRec can record it.

Features: -

  • Simple, easy to use UI
  • OutRec can save to wav, mp3 or ogg.
  • Record the sound at the same quality it was played at; no loss of quality in recording

Download

First of all we need to install a slew of dependencies of OutRec won't work as well as you want.

Open a terminal and enter: -

  • sudo apt-get install sox gambas2-runtime lame mplayer libnotify-bin libmp3lame0 gambas2-gb-form gambas2-gb-desktop gambas2-gb-gui libtwolame0

Now proceed to download the OutRec .deb file. Once completed double-click on it to install.image

Thanks to Luis

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Claudio

    it doesn’t work for me. No icon present in menu with which start the program and the notify-send dependence does not exist in Ubuntu 10.04 repository. Any help?

    • Claudio

      ok. i saw that notify-send dependence is included in libnotify-bin but the problem persists….i can’t launch the program.

      • Ronny

        On my system I had to install lame manually. After logging out the program was added to the Applications -> Other menu. Now everything is working like it should be.

      • Anonymous

        I couldn’t find it in the menus either. I pressed alt+f2 and started typing outrec and it auto completed to outrecEN.gambas

        You could make a menu item with that as the command to launch it too.

  • Norahm

    is there a simple command line solution for recording the sound output?

  • http://jackhynes.tumblr.com jackhynes

    Have you really started truncating your RSS feed? If so, not cool. You already advertise on the RSS feed and so many people will click through anyway to comment on content. If not, ignore me.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It will be summarised for the next few days. Long story. It will be back to full ASAP.

  • Chris Nichols

    Hell yeah!!!!1! I’ve been waiting for this for some time. That puts me one step closer to being able to replace OS X with garageband and soundflower

  • Anonymous

    ahhh bueno =) i’ve been doing this the manual way but now this is much better =)

  • Zsolt Sándor

    Please, for the sake of the pink ponies, give these apps some HIG consistency love. Newcomer apps tend to give a damn on consistent looks, just like those on Windows.

    • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

      Its not even the inconsistency, it’s the sheer uglyness most “custom-themed” Apps show off. Please, if you really need to style stuff at least give me a way to push in my own styles -_-’ or just make it natively themed. It’s not TOO hard, even for a beginner.

  • http://twitter.com/starcube starcube

    Finally a gui app for recording speaker output in #ubuntu!

  • Luis Aguiar

    Thanks for posting an article about my app. Hope you like it!

    Luis Aguiar

    • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

      I have been looking for an app like this. I have previously been using a male to male stereo cable and Gnome Sound Recorder. This is so much better. I would recommend creating a PPA to make it easy to keep this up to date.

      • Anonymous

        I’ll be working on the PPA. Thanks!

        • http://twitter.com/bilouttte John

          Hi Techm3,

          I had the same issue described by cedric and ubuntu 10.10. I found out that changing materiel in sound preference can help. I have changed parameters of the material from Analog stereo Duplex to Digital stereo duplex (IEC958).

          So now, I can record but I can’t listen when I record…

          Regards,

  • Stenosis

    can you pause and resume the record with this tool?

    • Anonymous

      Not for now, but thanks it’s a good idea for the next version!

  • Petr Simacek

    After i record something, i have in outrac folder nothing. No .ogg, no mp3. Have anyone same problem? Thanks P.

    • Petr Simacek

      I have OS in Czech language, is it problem?

      • Anonymous

        I’m not sure, for example those who has the OS in spanish need to download the spanish version, I will try something and let you know.Send me an email techm3@gmail.com I got something for you

    • Anonymous

      The folder is /home/username/outRec/ In what language is your OS?

  • http://twitter.com/kent_stor Kent Storbakken

    I can’t get this to work. I’ve tried OGG and MP3 recording. I press record and the title says it’s recording, I play some sound, stop it and nothing. There’s no file saved in the output folder. Is there a debug or something?

  • Anonymous

    After installing it wasn’t working, starting it from a terminal showed that soon as recording was attempted that “sox” was missing. Once I installed that though it worked fine so far.

    I would love to see the window lose the texture background. Very useful and simple app though as I have immediate use for it.

    • Anonymous

      thats right, everyone need to download all dependencies with:

      sudo apt-get install sox gambas2-runtime lame mplayer libnotify-bin libmp3lame0 gambas2-gb-form gambas2-gb-desktop gambas2-gb-gui libtwolame0

      • http://twitter.com/kent_stor Kent Storbakken

        Well this fixed the problem I was having. When I ran your dependency command from your website I got errors about some packages weren’t found. :S

        • Anonymous

          yeah the notify-send, but thanks to Claudio it has been fixed! Enjoy!

      • http://twitter.com/connorabruce Connor

        Thanks, sox was missing for me too, as soon as I ran that command it worked fine. Great program, I’d given up being able to just record sound playing on Ubuntu!

      • blixhavn

        It records and makes the files, but I get no sound on playback.

        • Anonymous

          You need to install all dependencies with:

          sudo apt-get install sox gambas2-runtime lame mplayer libnotify-bin libmp3lame0 gambas2-gb-form gambas2-gb-desktop gambas2-gb-gui libtwolame0

          • blixhavn

            I already has run that command for the dependencies, also the recorded files properties says they are over 20 minutes long, even though the original files last less than 3 miutes.

  • Blazé

    Why does it look like this? Some consistency among apps would be nice..

    Also, it doesn’t record for me either. It says it’s recording but no file in the folder.
    Mine OS language is English.

    • Anonymous

      Hi Blazé, you need to install all dependencies with:

      sudo apt-get install sox gambas2-runtime lame mplayer libnotify-bin libmp3lame0 gambas2-gb-form gambas2-gb-desktop gambas2-gb-gui libtwolame0

      If you have a better concept for the interface visit our website and send us a message.

      Enjoy!

  • Dusten B.

    So, what’s wrong with directing input to the monitor of the output? Or is this a front end that does that; makes it simple for novices?

    And I second all the notions of complying with GNOME HIG, or at the vary least ditching the app’s background image.

  • http://twitter.com/andypiper Andy Piper

    Raised a bug on the SourceForge page… you’d sort of expect this to be in the Sound & Video category but it ends up under Other due to the .desktop file not following the xdg standards:

    andyp@agrippa:~$ desktop-file-validate /usr/share/applications/outrecen.desktop
    /usr/share/applications/outrecen.desktop: warning: key “Encoding” in group “Desktop Entry” is deprecated
    /usr/share/applications/outrecen.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value “Audio” in key “Categories” in group “Desktop Entry” requires another category to be present among the following categories: AudioVideo

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NOZNKTI6HAEMMIGFGPGHPRYSLI DaleF

    Since the author of this program is here I’m happy that I can thank him! I’ve spent some time looking for a program like this. It is simple and working great, which is the way programs should be. Great you are going to put it in a PPA. Thanks for your work!

    • Anonymous

      Thanks to all of you for using it. If anyone have an idea or concept for the next version please contact us http://outrec.sourceforge.net/contact.html

      I’m working with the PPA but I have some problems, so it will take some time.

      Support US!

      • Anonymous

        The PPA is out, but I don’t know if it works at all. So try it and let me know to make it official:
        sudo add-apt-repository ppa:techm3/outrec

        or visit the launchpad.net site:
        https://launchpad.net/~techm3/+archive/outrec

  • Joedoe

    The program looks good to me, seems to work, makes the files, but no sound. I installed all the dependencies,

    sox is already the newest version.
    gambas2-runtime is already the newest version.
    lame is already the newest version.
    mplayer is already the newest version.
    libnotify-bin is already the newest version.
    libmp3lame0 is already the newest version.
    gambas2-gb-form is already the newest version.
    gambas2-gb-desktop is already the newest version.
    gambas2-gb-gui is already the newest version.
    libtwolame0 is already the newest version.

    I tried using pulse and the internal analog in multimedia sound output.
    mplayer, vlc, and mpg123 all play the files but no sound

    Is there a configuration file to make sure it captures the correct sound card and output as I also have a nvida for hdmi output?

    Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    (KDE 4.4.2)

  • Joedoe

    After changing the hardware settings in SMPlayer the sound works with all the applications.

    SMPlayer © 2006-2010 Ricardo Villalba
    Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447)
    Using Qt 4.6.2 (compiled with Qt 4.6.1)

  • Anonymous

    Language Bug Fixed in outRec 0.0.3!!!

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/outrec/files/outrec_0.0.3-1_all.deb/download

    or add our PPA

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:techm3/outrec

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  • Haytham000

    i get sox dependency missing although i installed it, using 8.10

    any ideas?

  • https://launchpad.net/~cedriczg Cedric

    I was able to use “outrec” on ubuntu 10.04, but since upgrade to ubuntu 10.10 I am not being able to get a sound recorded with this app. I even tried “Audio Record Applet” but same result. I get an mp3 file with no sound.
    May this error be due to /dev/dsp missing in this new ubuntu release?

    Any ideas on how to make outrec work again?

    • http://twitter.com/bilouttte John

      Hi Techm3,

      try to change material in sound preferences. change parameters of the material from Analog stereo Duplex to Digital stereo duplex (IEC958). or something like that. You wont be able to listen to what you record but it may record. Let me know.

      Regards,

      • Anonymous

        Dear John

        Your advice worked for me :) I have tried all other solutions on this thread, and anything else I have discovered on the Ubuntu Forum. Your solution was the only one that worked. I have no clue as to why this is so, and why OutRec stopped working as it used to do. Nevertheless, it now is functional again, thanks to you.

  • Zoltán Farmosi

    First off: Kudos to the author. Thanks for the app and for the installation instructions.  I did everything as per instructions, tested it and it’s working all right. (10.04 LTS – Lucid Lynx) Thanks again.
    For those who moan about the look: Hey, this is a free program. Use it as it is, or create something better. This author did his best, tested it, and shared what he’d done. If you don’t like it, come up with something better, and share it the same way – I am going to thank you too.

 
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