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&app; Manual V&manrevision; &date; Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project Sound Recorder Manual V2.4 September 2003 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project Sound Recorder Manual V2.3 January 2003 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project Sound Recorder Manual V2.2 August 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project Sound Recorder Manual V2.1 June 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project Sound Recorder Manual V2.0 May 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of &app;. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page. Sound Recorder The &app; application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg, and .wav sound files. You can start &app; in the following ways: Application menu Choose MultimediaSound Recorder. Command line Execute the following command: gnome-sound-recorder When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.

Shows &app; main window. Contains menubar, toolbar, progress bar, and statusbar.

To start a new recording session, perform the following steps: Choose FileNew. Use the Record as drop-down list to select one of the following recording options: CD Quality, Lossless CD Quality, Lossy Voice To start recording, choose ControlRecord. To stop recording, choose ControlStop. To play back the recording, choose ControlPlay. To run the audio mixer, choose FileRun Mixer. To save the recording, choose FileSave As, then type a name for the sound file. To play a sound file, choose FileOpen. Select a sound file in the Open a file dialog, then click OK. &app; displays the duration of the file in minutes and seconds below the progress bar. To play the file, choose Control Play. The progress indicator moves along the progress bar as the sound file is playing. To display the properties of a file, choose FileFile Information. &app; displays the following information about the file: File Information Folder displays the name of the folder in which the file is located. Filename displays the name of the file. File size displays the size of the file. Audio Information Song length displays the length of the audio data in the file. Number of channels displays the number of channels on which the audio data was recorded. Sample rate displays the sample rate at which the audio data was recorded. Bit rate displays the bit rate at which the audio data was recorded.