Recording audio in Skype

[butiflauta]

Hi, I'm using Skype to talk with different guests in my podcast and need a way to record our conversation. I read about Skype call recorder but if I try to install says it's an error in libqt4-gui dependence.
I thought using Audacity works but not. I try to select every audio source that appears on Audacity and no result.

Anyone knows about it?

[Flemur]

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... linux.html

Basically: pavucontrol (install if you need to) -> Recording tab -> "Monitor of Analog..."

And, IIRC, in audacity set the input to Pulseaudio - (?)

[butiflauta]

Thanks for the answer. I installed pavucontrol and the only thing I can do is record or my voice from line in source in my pc or the skype audio, not both. I mean I want to record my conversations in Skype for a podcast.

[phd21]

Hi "butiflauta",

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run "inxi -Fxzd" and "lsusb" from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

You could install the "libqt4-gui" dependencies, search "Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)" for "libqt4-gui".

OR

Awesome "Audio Recorder" to record anything audio related on your computer.
To install this using the PPA method, open a console terminal, type in, or copy & paste, each line below one by one:
Click "Select All" above command, right-click the highlighted command, select Copy (or Ctrl+Insert), click in the console terminal window, and right click paste (or Shift+Insert), repeat for each command.
Linux Mint 18

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audio-recorder/ppa

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install audio-recorder

Linux Mint 17.x or earlier

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install audio-recorder

Hope this helps ...

[Flemur]

Thanks for the answer. I installed pavucontrol and the only thing I can do is record or my voice from line in source in my pc or the skype audio, not both. I mean I want to record my conversations in Skype for a podcast.

Well, it's the standard way of recording "what you hear". Skype may have some glitch affecting things...does its mic input play thru the speaker/headphone, or is it just sent oevr the internets?

What happened when in pavucontrol you did

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Recording tab -> "Monitor of Analog..."

and then started the recorder? Any activity in the VU meters of pavucontrol or audacity? Did you try various inputs in audacity