[SOLVED] Record audio that is playing

[cjsnow1]

Hi. I'm new to Linux Mint 9. I had Ubuntu 9.04 installed but found out about Mint's "Out-of-the-box" compatibility & have loved it ever since.

I'm trying to record what is playing through my speakers but have not had any success. I have tried looking at the Sound Problems sticky but it didn't help. I also tried the Ubuntu forums but that was a no also.

I preferably would like to record inside Audacity. but I don't know what Recording Device to pick. I've tried all of them (there's 4) but none of them work and the last choice (OSS) crashes audacity.

This is the inxi -A output

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Audio:     Card nVidia CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21


And this is the lspci | grep audio output

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00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)

Help would be appreciated.

[conslie]

Guessing that you are referring to streaming audio (?), VLC will let you record and save what you are listening to when you use that player. You can find it in Mint's Software Manager. It will also record streaming video.

See http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch02.html , about 1/3 down beginning with Transcoding and see if that seems to accomplish what you want.

Enjoy.

(edit typo)

[cjsnow1]

Sorry I didn't reply sooner.

I wasnt trying to record streaming audio, I was trying to record something playing through the output on my sound card. Btw the card is capable of doing it as I used Audacity for Windows to record music from Myspace.

Windows won't load properly on my machine so im forced to use Mint.

[richyrich]

as I used Audacity for Windows to record music from Myspace.

Audacity is available in the Package Manager . .

[cjsnow1]

as I used Audacity for Windows to record music from Myspace.

Audacity is available in the Package Manager . .

I have audacity installed on my machine but don't know how to record the Output of my sound card.
I've tried getting a loop 3.5mm cable and plugging one end into my mic jack but I want something preferably w/o the cord.
Any suggestions?

[rekik]

I have solved a similar problem in Mint9 using "Pulse audio Device Chooser"

[Habitual]

Record what comes out of your speakers
Requirement(s): sox

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sudo apt-get install -y sox

Fire up gedit and add this code.

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#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 2008-2009, Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
#
# Records the PulseAudio monitor channel.
# http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/04/19/recording-from-pulseaudio/
#
#This script require sox
#sudo apt-get install sox

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
    OUTFILE="$1"
else
    TIME=$(date +%d-%b-%y_%H%M-%Z)
    OUTFILE="recording_$TIME.wav"
fi

# Get sink monitor:
MONITOR=$(pactl list | grep -A2 '^Source #' | grep 'Name: .*\.monitor$' | awk '{print $NF}' | tail -n1)

# Record it raw, and convert to a wav
echo "Recording. Ctrl-C or close window to stop"
parec -d "$MONITOR" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -sLb 16 -c 2 - "$OUTFILE"

# End of sound_cap.sh

Save it. Say to ~/sound_cap.sh


open a terminal and run this

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chmod 700 ~/sound_cap.sh

To use it:
in Terminal...

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~/sound_cap.sh

it will show "Recording. Ctrl-C or close window to stop"
Leave the terminal open while recording.

Fire up say any Audio Source (I use it on Grooveshark myself).

To stop recording Press Ctrl-C in the terminal.
To name the file being recorded, just use ~/sound_cap "name of the file.wav" (including the quotes).
Replay at your leisure.

It does NOT work if the headphones are plugged in.
Done.

HTH

[cjsnow1]

I actually found a solution here:http://drsjlazar.blogspot.com/2009/02/tidbit-recording-soundcard-output.html
just switch the ALSA properties around, edit a .conf file, & record with audacity. Thanks for the solutions.