Audio Recorder Applet lets you record any audio from your sound card, microphone, more

By , Published September 8, 2010

Audio Recorder Applet is, as the name implies, a recording applet for your GNOME panel.

This small tool allows you to record audio from your system soundcard, microphones, browsers, webcams & more. Put simply. if it plays out of your speakers you can record it!

Also included within the settings (see above) is a useful timer allows you to set specific durations of recording, alternatively set it to stop recording upon ‘silence’ or when a certain file size limit is reached.

Recordings can be saved as OGG, Flac, MP3 and WAV.

Download

Packages for Karmic through Maverick – although Maverick builds are currently broken – are available in the official PPA for the utility. Add it by opening a terminal window and entering: -

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/rec-applet
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install rec-applet

To add it to your GNOME Panel just right click > ‘Add to panel…’ > Audio Recording Applet

See also: Outrec

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  • Anonymous

    Thanks for highlighting this, I was using Outrec previously which got the job done but was pretty ugly looking.

    • Anonymous

      yh I used outrec too, dunno I will change to this though, outRec was über simple, just click record, then stop.

  • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

    Pretty useful tool. It can be really useful so record a radio station or a Youtube song painlessly

  • http://twitter.com/CalumSult CalumSult

    It would be handy if it could mix two sources together (mic+speakers). Also it doesn’t seem to work very well with no pulseaudio- I just use ALSA and it only shows recording the default device as the only option (usb mic and headphones not detected). Really neat idea though!

  • Carl

    I’ve been connecting my mic input to my headphone jack using a cable meant for attaching speakers to an iPhone, and then using Sound Recorder. :|

    I’ll definitely check this out.

  • taccoboss

    finally i can record my desktop sound without problems!……perfect….i works perfectly!

  • http://adminredes.pip.verisignlabs.com/ adminredes

    I want record input/output from my usb headset, unsuccessfull with Outrec (gambas). I wish that applet have chances.

  • http://adminredes.pip.verisignlabs.com/ adminredes

    Not functioning too.

  • munchkin

    OT: What is the GTK-theme, and window decorations please?
    Thakn you.

    • Mrmachoman86

      It is the Maverick Meerkat Ubuntu 10.10 theme.

  • Anonymous

    Looks better than that Sound Recorder application which doesn’t let you select the source.

  • Monkey Steve

    This is rubbish. Why is it not an indicator applet?

    • san

      Whahaha thank you for this comment :)

  • Drob

    Great applet.
    Selection of bit rate would complete this app.
    Thanks!!

  • duNNo

    There might be a way to do it in the terminal, right ?
    Anyone ?

  • http://www.gpscardvd.com Car DVD Players

    Looks better than that Sound Recorder application which doesn’t let you select the source.

  • http://www.gpscardvd.com Car DVD Players

    Looks better than that Sound Recorder application which doesn’t let you select the source.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

    looking at this little tool and thinking of all the other great additions to Gnome I can’t help but wonder, do more such things get developed for the Gnome desktop or do I just read less about stuff for KDE?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

    looking at this little tool and thinking of all the other great additions to Gnome I can’t help but wonder, do more such things get developed for the Gnome desktop or do I just read less about stuff for KDE?

  • Robert Okadar

    Is there a .rpm version of it? Can’t found it in Fedora repos. Or please give me an exact name of a package, thx.

 
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