vistaus/reco

A simple audio recording app

Reco

Reco is a simple audio recording app that helps you recall things talked later.

Features include:

• Recording sounds from both your microphone and system at the same time. This would be useful when you record conversations with chat apps or stream videos on the Internet
• Saving in some commonly used formats. It supports ALAC, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, and WAV
• Timed recording. You can set a delay before recording up to 15 seconds, and the length of recording up to 600 seconds
• Autosaving or always-ask-where-to-save workflow. You can select whether the app saves recordings automatically or you choose a destination each time on saving them
• Saving recording when the app quits. Even if you happen to quit the app while recording, the recording is saved automatically or a FileChooserDialog is shown depends on your saving setting

Installation

For Users

On elementary OS? Click the button to get Reco on AppCenter:

You can also download the app from Flathub, in case you're using another distribution. This version is tweaked to work well and look good on other desktop environment.

Community packages maintained by volunteers are also available on some distributions:

For Developers

You'll need the following dependencies to build:

• libgtk-4-dev
• libgranite-7-dev
• libgstreamer1.0-dev
• libpulse-dev
• libpulse-mainloop-glib0
• meson (>= 0.57.0)
• valac

You'll need the following dependencies to run:

• gstreamer1.0-libav

Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use ninja install, then execute with com.github.ryonakano.reco

ninja install
com.github.ryonakano.reco

Contributing

There are many ways you can contribute, even if you don't know how to code.

Reporting Bugs or Suggesting Improvements

Simply create a new issue describing your problem and how to reproduce or your suggestion. If you are not used to do, this section is for you.

Writing Some Code

We follow the coding style of elementary OS and its Human Interface Guidelines. Try to respect them.

Translation

We accept translations of this project through Weblate. We would appreciate it if you would join our translation work!

Click the following graphs to get started:

Main: Texts in the app itself	Extra: Texts in the desktop entry and the software center

The Story Behind This App

This app is originally designed and released for elementary OS.

One day, I had to take minutes for a meeting in my department with my elementary laptop. The discussion was so fast-paced, though, that I couldn't listen and write down everything in the minutes. When I got home, I searched for a sound recorder app. I found some non-elementary apps like GNOME Sound Recorder, but there were none for elementary OS. Thus, I decided to create one designed for elementary OS.