Record Streaming Audio with Audio Recorder

I just became aware of this great program for recording streaming audio. It comes bundled in Ubuntu Mate 16.04 Beta 1.

Audio Recorder is an amazing audio recording program, this small tool allows user to record audio from microphones, webcams, system sound card, media player or web browser & etc. It can save recording in various formats listed: Ogg, Mp3, Flac, Wav (22khz), Wav (44khz) and Spx.






It allows to use sound source system card, microphone, audio/video player, any application (like: Skype calls with any user interaction) and user defined program for recording. It also can be configured to stop recording if output file limit is reached to user requirement. Audio threshold is supported by this program, which can record audio on sound/voice and stop/pause when silence (user can set up threshold and delay as per requirements). Additionally you can setup an timer manually within the audio recorder program to schedule recordings and the program will start/stop/pause recording at given time. Panel indicator support for Ubuntu, from where user can easily access some options like: show/hide window, start/stop recording and open recording location.




To install Audio-Recorder in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To Install Audio Recorder use the Terminal

Terminal Commands: (updated ppa) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audio-recorder/ppa sudo apt-get -y update sudo apt-get install --reinstall audio-recorder And for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS do the following: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install audio-recorder
Source: https://launchpad.net/~audio-recorder/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

How To Fix The (Annoying) ‘Failed to Fetch’ Chrome apt Error

Google announced plans discontinue 32-bit Google Chrome for Linux this March, and, bang on cue, it has.

The search engine has pulled 32-bit Chrome builds from the official Chrome repo, which gets added to Ubuntu Software Sources when the app is first installed.
Some 64-bit Ubuntu systems caught in the cross-hairs of the deprecation are now throwing a small, yet very annoying, error when performing an apt update.
The ‘failed to fetch error that appears in the Terminal says:

“Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)”

Are you seeing it?
If you are: do not panic. There is an easy to fix the ‘failed to fetch’ error and all it requires is 30 seconds and a few simple characters…

‘The fix takes just 30 seconds to perform, then no-more annoying error.’

Fix ‘Failed To Fetch’ Apt Error on Ubuntu

The tip comes to us by way of OMG! Ubuntu! reader Santiago Batista, who explains the situation in his e-mail to us:
“Since Google dropped support for 32-bit Chrome on Linux an error occurs when updating apt in 64-bit systems (with multi arch enabled).
“The solution,” he says, ”is to modify the sources.list file for Chrome.”
But how do you do that?
We can edit the sources.list in a number of different ways. Some of these take place at the command line, others through a GUI.
You may have your own preferred method, but for this walkthrough I will use Gedit.
1. Open a new Terminal window and run the following command (assuming you’re on the Stable Channel, if not, see the featured comment):

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

2. In the text file that opens edit the file so that the line reads:

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

The only addition you need to make is entering the [amd64] architecture after ‘deb’ but preceding the ‘http’. Do not edit or replace any other text in this file.
3. Hit Save. Close the Gedit window.
Now return to the Terminal and refresh your package list by running:

sudo apt-get update

The ‘failed to fetch’ APT error should no longer appear.

This post, How To Fix The (Annoying) ‘Failed to Fetch’ Chrome apt Error, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.