simple sound recorder software?

[m654321]

What software can I use for a simple sound recorder with LL2, so that I can record ambient sound via my laptop's inbuilt microphone?
There is the linux software gnome-sound-recorder 3.4.0, though I suspect it wont run on LL2 as an XFCE rather than a Gnome desktop.

Many thanks in advance for any ideas?

Regards
Mike

[elija]

A lot of Gnome software will run just fine in Xfce but it may pull in a lot of dependencies (KDE software is awful for this). Try and install it and see if your happy with what it wants to add.

[bitsnpcs]

Audacity can record sound, I have not tried this using a mic.
I have just begun to use it to make a mix of mp3, but notice on the interface and user guide info about inputs.

[rokytnji]

Code:

~$ sudo apt-get -s install mhwaveedit
[sudo] password for harry:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  lame
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lame mhwaveedit
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded.
Inst lame (3.99.5+repack1-3ubuntu1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])
Inst mhwaveedit (1.4.23-1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])
Conf lame (3.99.5+repack1-3ubuntu1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])
Conf mhwaveedit (1.4.23-1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])

mhwaveedit has always worked for me and is small and easy to install and operate.

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/mhwaveedit/

[m654321]

~$ sudo apt-get -s install mhwaveedit

Many thanks, rokytnji.
When I used the code in it's form above it didn't work - when I left the -s out of the code it downloaded and installed, appearing in "Multimedia". I now just need to work out how to use it so will have a closer look at the link you provided.  Many thanks again.

Regards
Mike

[m654321]

A lot of Gnome software will run just fine in Xfce but it may pull in a lot of dependencies (KDE software is awful for this). Try and install it and see if your happy with what it wants to add.

Thanks Elija - I took your advice and tried downloading it.
However, sudo apt-get install gnome-sound-recorder didn't produce anything, and synaptic package manager did not have it.  When I downloaded it from softpedia, I was unable to install it with Gdebi package manager (after extracting the files), as the message back was that it wasn't a Debian file.

Instead, I went for the mhWaveEdit software suggested by rokytnji (sudo apt-get install mhWaveEdit).
Many thanks though for your suggestion - it was worth a go...

Kind regards
Mike

[elija]

After a bit more digging I found it is part of a package called gnome-media which as I suspected does pull in a lot of dependencies.

Code:

richard@andromeda-ascendant:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-media
[sudo] password for richard:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cheese-common cracklib-runtime cups-pk-helper gkbd-capplet
  gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data
  gnome-control-center-shared-data gnome-desktop3-data gnome-session-bin
  gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-gconf gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  gstreamer0.10-x gstreamer1.0-clutter libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7
  libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-2.0-0
  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango15 libcogl15 libcrack2
  libgnome-control-center1 libgnome-desktop-3-7 libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0
  libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgoa-1.0-0b libgoa-1.0-common
  libgoa-backend-1.0-1 libpwquality-common libpwquality1 librest-0.7-0
  libsystemd-journal0 libtelepathy-glib0 libwacom-common libwacom2 mousetweaks
  nautilus-data ubuntu-system-service
Suggested packages:
  gnome-user-guide ubuntu-docs gnome-screensaver nautilus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cheese-common cracklib-runtime cups-pk-helper gkbd-capplet
  gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data
  gnome-control-center-shared-data gnome-desktop3-data gnome-media
  gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-gconf
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x gstreamer1.0-clutter
  libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common
  libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango15
  libcogl15 libcrack2 libgnome-control-center1 libgnome-desktop-3-7
  libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgoa-1.0-0b
  libgoa-1.0-common libgoa-backend-1.0-1 libpwquality-common libpwquality1
  librest-0.7-0 libsystemd-journal0 libtelepathy-glib0 libwacom-common
  libwacom2 mousetweaks nautilus-data ubuntu-system-service
0 upgraded, 43 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 41.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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rokytnji is very good at identifying light-weight but functional alternatives so I think you made the right choice. The -s in his original command simply tells apt to simulate the install rather than really do it.

[m654321]

Thanks again, for your reply Elija, very helpful.

Regards
Mike

[wqhj studios]

cheers to roktnji!! thx u so much for the perfect advice. this may seem lame, but u, whoever ur, wherever ur, u r my hero for today!!!

Code:

~$ sudo apt-get -s install mhwaveedit
[sudo] password for harry:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  lame
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lame mhwaveedit
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded.
Inst lame (3.99.5+repack1-3ubuntu1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])
Inst mhwaveedit (1.4.23-1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])
Conf lame (3.99.5+repack1-3ubuntu1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])
Conf mhwaveedit (1.4.23-1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [i386])

mhwaveedit has always worked for me and is small and easy to install and operate.

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/mhwaveedit/

[LL-user]

If you prefer something even simpler and don't mind using a ppa, audio-recorder would be an alternative.
It's for years one of the first installs I do on a new system. It's very versatile with the sources you want to record and completely gets out of your way.


https://launchpad.net/~audio-recorder