Recording on the fly with Audacity
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With Audacity you can record everything that's sounding in your pc. This include radio broadcasts, streaming services, etc.
You have to select the input device, in my case is HDA Intel ..... mix 0.
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You may have to try different options. If no one works, you should try another partition if available or a dedicated sound card.
You click on the record button to start recording. To avoid clipping the sound volume must be turn down some percentage, it depends on the source.
100% volume:
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60-70% volume:
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I'm going to record a spotify album for the tutorial. You can install it on ubuntu too.
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You click record on audacity and play on spotify. You record all the album, commercials included. The free version of spotify include commercials between some tracks.
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You have to edit this, this is, delete the commercials and split in tracks. Editing in mp3 will degrade the sound, so you record everything on PCM 16/44.
You go to the beginning and go to Tracks-Add label at selection, and type the name of the fist track. Now you go to the second track. In this example there's a commercial there:
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You select it pressing the left button of the mouse and scrolling, then you click delete:
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Now go to Tracks-Add label at selection and type the second track:
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You do this for all the tracks. You move trough the file using the cursor:
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Change the scale using the zoom out-in.
Once everything is done,you select all the file clicking on the left of the spectrogram and you go to File-Export multiple. In this case the source is ogg q5 ~160 kbps, the equivalent is mp3 V2:
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And that's it:
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The names of the tracks are taken from amazon, along with the album cover. The sound quality of free spotify is pretty solid.
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