(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

I assumed that lame was still included with puppy...guess not.

The one liner is using arecord which is comes with alsa...(and lame..it gets around) and will record from the selected input ... no audacity or any other program needed

mike

My son does not want to deal with the complexity of Audacity - he really just needs a simple voice recorder with the GUI which allows him to save to mp3 or wav.

Anything like that for Puppy?

Sure seems like a common app - it has always been part of the MS and Apple distros.

Ok simple recorder time.

unpack and drop this in somewhere like /usr/bin, click and run
choose card one if you only have one...
use alsamixer to choose input.....

mike

Thanks Mike!

My Puppy 4.2 install has forgotten all of the default Run Action associations.

What app is best to use these days to open a tar.gz?

Still the old way in rxvt or pupunzip or ???

4.20 is a mystery to me..is xarchive still in it?

mike

yes it is but it has been updated and looks a little different.

xarchive is still there according to Pfind

tar -xvzt simple_recorder.tar.gz fails on my laptop with a complain about the command, it fails on the other laptop saying that the file is not a real .gz

???

Is 1126 B the correct size?

Have archive formats changed in the last 2 years...
how about
xarchive simple_recorder.tar.gz

mike

edit..yes thats the size

that does not work, error: bash: xarchive; command not found

Puppy 4.2.x has xarchiver, not xarchive.

sorry , my bad.

Puppy 4.2.x has xarchiver, not xarchive.

another funky 'update' and no gxmessage for those really crappy selection boxes lol...did they bother include a kernel in that one?

mike

All working now, thanks!

Is there an app that includes a recording level meter?

Also, are the features like Mic Boost active or not based on the autodetect of the sound card features?

Thanks again!

alsamixer usually gives what is available.
Mhwaveedit was in puppy 4.12....fairly simple with vu meters

mike

I found it in Puppy Package Manager and it installed OK on my laptop - I will try it on his - sure looks like a good "middle option" between simple_recorder and Audacity.

Will report back ...

Thanks!

sure looks like a good "middle option" between simple_recorder and Audacity.

? Audacity seems to me to be easier to use than mhWavedit Its not like there's a whole lot of complexity getting in the way - the complexity is in menus which you can just ignore.

If you want to record directly to mp3 you could always try Wine + Messer or Mp3Directcut.

audacity 1-3-2 beta
...
that version had many issues in ubuntu 8.04

I don't know about 1.3.2, but the later versions work great in Puppy. And if they did crash somehow you can actually recover your session unlike 1.2.x. We really should be pointing people towards them.

mhwaveedit does not seem to offer the option to Start-Pause-Resume-Pause-Resume-Save that my son needs to create multiple voice-dialog recordings in a simple file.

Can someone explain how in Audacity he could simply Open a new file, begin Recording, Pause, then Resume, Pause, then Resume, and when done simply save to a wav or mp3 file?

Neither he or I saw that in Audacity -- it looked more like one had to create a complex Project then try to extract simple voice audio from it.

edoc,

There is a tutorial here http://www.gposil.com/puptuts.htm on how to record voice in Audacity...