Bacon Recorder - simple audio recorder
Posted: Fri 24 Jun 2011, 00:22
Bacon Recorder - simple audio recorder
Feb 18 2012 Italian and Portuguese translations added
to Spanish French Russian German translations
See more instructions and pics on page 4 of this thread
Help me translate into various languages
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72855
version 2.5 supports recording to /mnt/home/ and
recording to the same partition as your pupsave file is stored.
It also uses a new folder selector.
Edit: Several recording events are possible simultaneously.
The user simply sets the Start time (don't forget length of recording)
and clicks the set button for the different times you want
the recording to proceed. --->
Hidden from the user the arecord application is launched each time
that the set button is clicked. Clicking on 'Stop' kills the arecord app.
It is possible to 'Quit' baconrecorder and the recording events will
still proceed.
It records in background. This has advantages in
a low powered computer. It takes about 10% of CPU
in my P4 computer recording a MP3 file.
(Nearly zero if its a WAVE file.)
This is much less than mhwaveedit.
I find that it is stabler than mhwaveedit.
New feature- a log button to 'see' a recording while
it is being made. There is a log entry when the
recording is started and then when it is finished.
A great way of checking to see if recording has begun.
New feature-Name of file that you record is in the
language you use i.e. a Russian name if you're
using Russian. Note that you may have to delete
the hidden configuration folder in /root
to start this feature!!
Click on animated GIF to see the sound input levels.
If you see sound levels like 50 to 60 then the sound volume
is full.
A stop button to stop the scheduled recording from starting to
record or if it is already recording it will stop the recording safely.
Once you have set the desired recording then you
can click 'Quit' if you wish. This is desirable for a low
powered computer since scripts consume power
when they use a GUI.
Bacon Recorder should work in all versions of puppy linux.
See picture in next post to get a better idea.
Once it is set and in the background ( in a loop
which uses little processing power) you can kill it
by clicking Stop button ( or in the terminal
type 'killall arecord' )
An innovative feature is keeping a log of recordings.
.... also does a check to see if your desired
partition is mounted. There are lots of
warning messages to make it nearly impossible
to make a bad recording.
There are two basic methods to delay your recording start,
a countdown timer or a given time to start the recording.
Three types of recordings are possible, Wave, MP3 stereo and
MP3 mono.
If anyone needs OGG then contact me.
The MP3 Stereo is very high quality q=3
MP3 mono is very low quality but it's intended for speech.
About 7mb to record one hour of speech
___________________________________________________________________
Details of my work:
I corrected a couple of bugs. ---> Combobox needed hard spaces
between words like 'MP3 Stereo' to work correctly!!
Quality of mono was too low on some versions of Puppy so I
improved it ---> lame -b 16
French translation thanks to esmourguit
Innovative new method of checking to see if partition is mounted.
This is done at the launch of app.
If you forget to enter a length for a recording, you get a warning
and the application restarts automatically.
There is now a Quit button to stop a countdown or a recording
that is in progress. It's safe to use and the Log will
be updated to show what has happened. I find the Log
feature very useful and innovative.
Be careful that you have enough disk space and use
Retrovol, the Audio mixer, to set the correct
sound input source.
Note that pull-down menu sets the length (or duration)
of the recording but you can change this value
by filling in a different value ---> for instance instead
of 60 minutes , fill in 70 minutes if you wish.
______________
Feb 18 2012 Italian and Portuguese translations added
to Spanish French Russian German translations
See more instructions and pics on page 4 of this thread
Help me translate into various languages
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72855
version 2.5 supports recording to /mnt/home/ and
recording to the same partition as your pupsave file is stored.
It also uses a new folder selector.
Edit: Several recording events are possible simultaneously.
The user simply sets the Start time (don't forget length of recording)
and clicks the set button for the different times you want
the recording to proceed. --->
Hidden from the user the arecord application is launched each time
that the set button is clicked. Clicking on 'Stop' kills the arecord app.
It is possible to 'Quit' baconrecorder and the recording events will
still proceed.
It records in background. This has advantages in
a low powered computer. It takes about 10% of CPU
in my P4 computer recording a MP3 file.
(Nearly zero if its a WAVE file.)
This is much less than mhwaveedit.
I find that it is stabler than mhwaveedit.
New feature- a log button to 'see' a recording while
it is being made. There is a log entry when the
recording is started and then when it is finished.
A great way of checking to see if recording has begun.
New feature-Name of file that you record is in the
language you use i.e. a Russian name if you're
using Russian. Note that you may have to delete
the hidden configuration folder in /root
to start this feature!!
Click on animated GIF to see the sound input levels.
If you see sound levels like 50 to 60 then the sound volume
is full.
A stop button to stop the scheduled recording from starting to
record or if it is already recording it will stop the recording safely.
Once you have set the desired recording then you
can click 'Quit' if you wish. This is desirable for a low
powered computer since scripts consume power
when they use a GUI.
Bacon Recorder should work in all versions of puppy linux.
See picture in next post to get a better idea.
Once it is set and in the background ( in a loop
which uses little processing power) you can kill it
by clicking Stop button ( or in the terminal
type 'killall arecord' )
An innovative feature is keeping a log of recordings.
.... also does a check to see if your desired
partition is mounted. There are lots of
warning messages to make it nearly impossible
to make a bad recording.
There are two basic methods to delay your recording start,
a countdown timer or a given time to start the recording.
Three types of recordings are possible, Wave, MP3 stereo and
MP3 mono.
If anyone needs OGG then contact me.
The MP3 Stereo is very high quality q=3
MP3 mono is very low quality but it's intended for speech.
About 7mb to record one hour of speech
___________________________________________________________________
Details of my work:
I corrected a couple of bugs. ---> Combobox needed hard spaces
between words like 'MP3 Stereo' to work correctly!!
Quality of mono was too low on some versions of Puppy so I
improved it ---> lame -b 16
French translation thanks to esmourguit
Innovative new method of checking to see if partition is mounted.
This is done at the launch of app.
If you forget to enter a length for a recording, you get a warning
and the application restarts automatically.
There is now a Quit button to stop a countdown or a recording
that is in progress. It's safe to use and the Log will
be updated to show what has happened. I find the Log
feature very useful and innovative.
Be careful that you have enough disk space and use
Retrovol, the Audio mixer, to set the correct
sound input source.
Note that pull-down menu sets the length (or duration)
of the recording but you can change this value
by filling in a different value ---> for instance instead
of 60 minutes , fill in 70 minutes if you wish.
______________