Simple sound recorder wanted

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 14:58 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> What's the simplest sound recording program on Ubuntu/Xubuntu?  No
> extras needed at all, just record and save as FLAC or MP3.

Not sure if this meets the requirement for Xubuntu, but personally I
think gnome-sound-recorder is one of the simplest and best sound
recorders around.

sudo apt install gnome-sound-recorder

Run it, press the "Record" button, talk, press "Done" button.

Recordings appears as clips in the application, with a Play button to
hear them, and info button to rename them and a bin icon to discard
them.

Preferences let you specify the save format.

It doesn't get simpler or easier.

Don't inflict Audacity on someone that just wants to record simple
sound bites.

Another option is to use a smartphone. The quality is usually quite
good, it doesn't have all the humming of a computer, and you can copy
the files off the phone to the computer for processing or whatever.

Regards, K.


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