Audio Screen Recorder?
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Audio Screen Recorder?
Is there such a thing as an audio only screen recorder? Something that you could do things like record youtube,etc.
Like Simplescreenrecorder, but audio only.
Thanks
Doug
Like Simplescreenrecorder, but audio only.
Thanks
Doug
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
Audacity, mhwaveedit, traverso, qjackrcd, snd-gtk-jack or in terminal arecord.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
Thanks. How would I do it in audacity? I tried, but couldn't figure out how.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
Depends on the Browser, Audio System (ALSA, Pulse, JACK) and Operating System in use.
Usually select System or Mix as the input source in audio mixer and then select the input source in Audacity.
Usually select System or Mix as the input source in audio mixer and then select the input source in Audacity.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
Non of the settings show up where you indicated. I'm using a Lexicon Alpha External USB sound card.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
I think it much depends what kind of audio setup you have. Asking from musicians, everybody assumes you have jack running.
If you have jack running, and pulseaudio, then recording PulseAudio JACK Sink will give you all 'normal' desktop audio stuff.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
You can use any audio recording program (like Audacity) but you have to set up your audio properly.
On my systems I have jackd running all the time. It's my main sound system. It gets all the audio since ALSA is redirected to Pulseaudio and Pulseaudio outputs via jack_sink to jackd.
That's only half of the truth,
The other half is to direct everything (Pulseaudio's jack_sink and jack clients) not to system:playback but to a central jack_thru instance. I named it "main". "main" is the central point that I connect Audacity to, so I can record everything.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
If you're wanting to rip audio of youtube just use youtube-dl
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
Yes, downloading a video and extracting its audio track by the use of a video editor or even ffmpeg is what I'm doing, if I'm interested in the video's music. Takes the same bandwidth but very less time compared to recording.
In general I don't watch videos online. Also my browser just can't play audio, which I'm happy for as I find it annoying when audio starts coming out of my speakers after entering some web-sites. Browser is Firefox, needs pulse audio, don't have it installed, don't like it. Even disabling auto-play won't work on some web-sites.
Instead I'm downloading and watch later offline.
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
And just in case you previewed a video but are only interested in its audio tracks you may simplify as such:TAERSH wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:10 pmYes, downloading a video and extracting its audio track by the use of a video editor or even ffmpeg is what I'm doing, if I'm interested in the video's music. Takes the same bandwidth but very less time compared to recording.
In general I don't watch videos online. Also my browser just can't play audio, which I'm happy for as I find it annoying when audio starts coming out of my speakers after entering some web-sites. Browser is Firefox, needs pulse audio, don't have it installed, don't like it. Even disabling auto-play won't work on some web-sites.
Instead I'm downloading and watch later offline.
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youtube-dl --no-playlist -x -f bestaudio URLofWanted
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Re: Audio Screen Recorder?
Great, thanks!
I assume this would save some bandwidth/download traffic...
I assume this would save some bandwidth/download traffic...
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