I recently switched to an AOSP rom and found that the samsung voice recording app sounds very good. I'm not sure, but i'm guessing it utilizes both mics. The first app from the market i tried, smart voice recorder, sounded horrible. I couldn't hear the lecture at all. Does anyone know of an app that utilizes both the mics or sounds as good as the touchwiz app?
for general recording I use recforge...i bought pro, you can swap formats, decrease gain It can successfully record vocals during band practice with a loud guitar, so i can find harmonies after if I'm struggling or if a new soong. I highly recommend this app for recording. There are also convert tools and other options
as for lectures, I use lecture notes pro version with lecture note recordings. The recording is not as nice, but good enough and when listening to a play back, i can search, then press a place on my handwritten notes and it will automatically synch the play back to the time when i wrote the notes. I use it with a stylus and it take what i wrote in the window at the bottom and places it on a line in the "paper", it does multi pages, has so many options for tweaking size, font, and way more than I can list here. There is a trial version however the recording add on is purchase only. the lecture notes printed out really nice from phone and tablet or i can share them to google drive, evernote etc. I tried 7 notes and like lecture notes much better with regard to fluency when in a lecture.
and if just a recorder I would go with recforge...HTH!
Kathi
implodingspace said:
for general recording I use recforge...i bought pro, you can swap formats, decrease gain It can successfully record vocals during band practice with a loud guitar, so i can find harmonies after if I'm struggling or if a new soong. I highly recommend this app for recording. There are also convert tools and other options
as for lectures, I use lecture notes pro version with lecture note recordings. The recording is not as nice, but good enough and when listening to a play back, i can search, then press a place on my handwritten notes and it will automatically synch the play back to the time when i wrote the notes. I use it with a stylus and it take what i wrote in the window at the bottom and places it on a line in the "paper", it does multi pages, has so many options for tweaking size, font, and way more than I can list here. There is a trial version however the recording add on is purchase only. the lecture notes printed out really nice from phone and tablet or i can share them to google drive, evernote etc. I tried 7 notes and like lecture notes much better with regard to fluency when in a lecture.
and if just a recorder I would go with recforge...HTH!
Kathi
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i need recording only. doe recforge sound fine when recording a lecture standing about 15 feet away from the professor? I just am kinda looking for something to match the sound quality of the touchwiz app that comes with the phone.
smac7 said:
i need recording only. doe recforge sound fine when recording a lecture standing about 15 feet away from the professor? I just am kinda looking for something to match the sound quality of the touchwiz app that comes with the phone.
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Def will...there is a free version i believe where options are limited within app for formats mono vs stereo etc but you can check out quality for yourself its my go to recording app for sure...hope you like it or find what you need
Tape-a-Talk Pro. Its unbeatable. It sounds excellent from 30 ft and works fantastic on all of my devices, even my tab that has a pretty bad mic.
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Never tried that one but will certainly check it out...what kind of options come with that? Do they have a free or trial app?
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Hey guys - I'm looking for any suggestions on a voice recorder that's pretty good. The stock one seems to pick up a TON of background noise, and it just sounds...well, dirty.
Anyone have any suggestions? Free is good, but I'd be willing to shell out a few bucks for something worth it.
I like to use Catch Notes.. I mainly use it to take quick notes witthout having to type them.. but u can use it as a voice recorder if u like..
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Give "Hi-Q MP3 Recorder" a try.
I've tried quite a few & this one is the best one I could find.
B5Z said:
Give "Hi-Q MP3 Recorder" a try.
I've tried quite a few & this one is the best one I could find.
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Appreciate this. I actually just bought the full version a few days ago, and I agree, the best I've found so far.
High quality mp3 is the best I record songs top quality play beat in musicplayer and rap through samsung stock headphonez with mic and without comes out cd quality and is,the only one that records mp3 & try virtual recorder ugly ui but just as good quality ...
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recforge is awesome, built in converter, so many settings
I believe our phone has 2 microphones on the top and bottom of the phone, so what's stopping us from recording stereo audio? Is it something samsung just left out, or is there a hardware limitation?
Could this possibly be added with a software mod?
yousefak said:
I believe our phone has 2 microphones on the top and bottom of the phone, so what's stopping us from recording stereo audio? Is it something samsung just left out, or is there a hardware limitation?
Could this possibly be added with a software mod?
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I tried to find information on the matter, I even ask In the forums and nobody seems to care that their sprint galaxy s3 is defective.... man this suck, no stereo recording? jeez
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I tried to find information on this , I even ask In the forums and nobody seems to care that their sprint galaxy s3 is defective.... man this sucks, no stereo recording? jeez
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Agreed. Why is this getting no attention? I've spent over an hour researching this and found countless mentions of the international S3 recording stereo audio when recording video. I have tried numerous apps and tested every factory option to get stereo recording and nothing works. I've also read that the other mic is for noise reduction. So what's the deal? Can anyone shed any light on this?
Could it be because of different processor and audio chips?
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Just did some more tests. The mic on the top of the phone acts as the mic for both front and rear camera video. When using the stock record audio app the bottom mic is used. Clearly both mics can be used. I guess we'll just have to wait for someone to make a stereo record app since it's clearly possible.
So do any of the xda devs that we all love so dearly want to take a crack at this? Recording audio in stereo would just be tits! Sorry, couldn't help myself!
Samsung Galaxy records sstereo to Video and audio apps can too
I am not a developer but i hope this helps.
When I record a video with the phone held horizontally (the top mic is right and the bottom mic is left. I was so surprised the first time I heard something that had depth. But I couldnt dupllicate it using the Vmemo or any of the other apps. I got kucky one day when recording video with headphones in. The instant play revealed a stereo audio recording when video recording. AWESOME.....
PART II
There is an aoo called Recforge that allows the user to set the device (Mine is Samsung Galaxy S3) to record .wav or .ogg or .mp3. (First app I've seen that recognizes and manipulates .wav files), The user can set the sample rate up to 48kHz. And lastly, The recording can be switched to Stereo (Native) mode. It works great !!!!!
Hope this is helpful. Perhaps one of you is the developer for RecForge.
I love the app. I am a musician and I hate mono recordings done with AGC.(Yes RecForge let's you turn that crap off too)
Good luck.
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I am not a developer but i hope this helps.
When I record a video with the phone held horizontally (the top mic is right and the bottom mic is left. I was so surprised the first time I heard something that had depth. But I couldnt dupllicate it using the Vmemo or any of the other apps. I got kucky one day when recording video with headphones in. The instant play revealed a stereo audio recording when video recording. AWESOME.....
PART II
There is an aoo called Recforge that allows the user to set the device (Mine is Samsung Galaxy S3) to record .wav or .ogg or .mp3. (First app I've seen that recognizes and manipulates .wav files), The user can set the sample rate up to 48kHz. And lastly, The recording can be switched to Stereo (Native) mode. It works great !!!!!
Hope this is helpful. Perhaps one of you is the developer for RecForge.
I love the app. I am a musician and I hate mono recordings done with AGC.(Yes RecForge let's you turn that crap off too)
Good luck.
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Not helped.
In CM stereo work fine, problem in stock ROM only
Unfortunately, RecForge doesn't record mp3 or whatever compressed format on-the-fly. Instead, you have to wait at the end of every recording while the phone converts the file to the compressed format you want. That's very inconvenient. Recently, I tried Hi-Q mp3 dictaphone, but this one records in mono only, and the newest version is limited to ridiculous 4 seconds of compressed recording. According to the fact being so unlucky to find a suitable app anywhere, here my 'wishlist':
-recording of compressed audio on-the-fly with at least 128kbit/s bitrate and 44.1kHz sample rate, no recompressing at the end of recordings
-recording in stereo
-display for input sound level would be nice (e.g. vu-meter)
-small app
-free, if possible
Zoli
any news?
If a dev could please have some input on this, it would be much appreciated. I'm curious about this too. I'm using a custom rom(GalaxySfre3) and it also has this problem. I recently made the observation of the 2 mics. Both useable, but not simultaneously. I might try CM, don't know if that guy is saying stereo recording works or if just recording works on it. If anyone has the time to check and confirm if other roms support it, I'd appreciate it!
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Agreed. Why is this getting no attention? I've spent over an hour researching this and found countless mentions of the international S3 recording stereo audio when recording video. I have tried numerous apps and tested every factory option to get stereo recording and nothing works. I've also read that the other mic is for noise reduction. So what's the deal? Can anyone shed any light on this?
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My phone records in stereo. But I can't tell you how because xda's rules prohibit such discussion
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My phone records in stereo. But I can't tell you how because xda's rules prohibit such discussion
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I'm trying to think of which rule that would be violated. I can't tell, so I'm going to say it's the one about Personal Attacks.
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My phone records in stereo. But I can't tell you how because xda's rules prohibit such discussion
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So your suggesting it isn't anything to do with ROM compatibility, and in order for it to work, there's things xda has prohibited discussion that are necessary. I honestly don't have a clue for what it is, but if a moderator could just confirm if this is true then I don't think anyone would persist with this. Including myself, although I'm positive it could just be a kernal tweak that gets it working. I don't know much about tweaking the kernal so I'd rather leave it up to someone who knows what they're doing.
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So your suggesting it isn't anything to do with ROM compatibility, and in order for it to work, there's things xda has prohibited discussion that are necessary. I honestly don't have a clue for what it is, but if a moderator could just confirm if this is true then I don't think anyone would persist with this. Including myself, although I'm positive it could just be a kernal tweak that gets it working. I don't know much about tweaking the kernal so I'd rather leave it up to someone who knows what they're doing.
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It's a kernel that isn't supposed to be discussed within xda.
It's a sad thing to have to happen but it helps keep drama down
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RecForge does mp3 on the fly
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Unfortunately, RecForge doesn't record mp3 or whatever compressed format on-the-fly. Instead, you have to wait at the end of every recording while the phone converts the file to the compressed format you want. That's very inconvenient. Recently, I tried Hi-Q mp3 dictaphone, but this one records in mono only, and the newest version is limited to ridiculous 4 seconds of compressed recording. According to the fact being so unlucky to find a suitable app anywhere, here my 'wishlist':
-recording of compressed audio on-the-fly with at least 128kbit/s bitrate and 44.1kHz sample rate, no recompressing at the end of recordings
-recording in stereo
-display for input sound level would be nice (e.g. vu-meter)
-small app
-free, if possible
Zoli
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RecForge records in mp3 on the fly too. The free version pauses recording (in mp3 and ogg not wav) every 3 min which can be resumed.
May be at the time of your writing this feature was not available.
Possible
fantomaster said:
any news?
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RecForge does record in stereo mode. It records in mp3/wav/ogg and is perhaps most feature rich audio recorder for Android. The free version pauses mp3 and ogg format recording every 3 min which can be resumed. So either one can buy paid version or record in wav and later convert to mp3.
Another app capable of stereo recording is Easy Voice Recorder Pro (Paid version only, free version does not). But it is more costly than RecForge and have less features too.
Hi,
I'm the developper of RecForge.
xdasochs said:
I am not a developer but i hope this helps.
When I record a video with the phone held horizontally (the top mic is right and the bottom mic is left. I was so surprised the first time I heard something that had depth. But I couldnt dupllicate it using the Vmemo or any of the other apps. I got kucky one day when recording video with headphones in. The instant play revealed a stereo audio recording when video recording. AWESOME.....
PART II
There is an aoo called Recforge that allows the user to set the device (Mine is Samsung Galaxy S3) to record .wav or .ogg or .mp3. (First app I've seen that recognizes and manipulates .wav files), The user can set the sample rate up to 48kHz. And lastly, The recording can be switched to Stereo (Native) mode. It works great !!!!!
Hope this is helpful. Perhaps one of you is the developer for RecForge.
I love the app. I am a musician and I hate mono recordings done with AGC.(Yes RecForge let's you turn that crap off too)
Good luck.
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Thank you
Zoli1972 said:
Unfortunately, RecForge doesn't record mp3 or whatever compressed format on-the-fly. Instead, you have to wait at the end of every recording while the phone converts the file to the compressed format you want. That's very inconvenient. Recently, I tried Hi-Q mp3 dictaphone, but this one records in mono only, and the newest version is limited to ridiculous 4 seconds of compressed recording. According to the fact being so unlucky to find a suitable app anywhere, here my 'wishlist':
-recording of compressed audio on-the-fly with at least 128kbit/s bitrate and 44.1kHz sample rate, no recompressing at the end of recordings
-recording in stereo
-display for input sound level would be nice (e.g. vu-meter)
-small app
-free, if possible
Zoli
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It can record and encode to mp3, ogg ... in real time, just go in the settings and choose your favorite format.
ePandit said:
RecForge does record in stereo mode. It records in mp3/wav/ogg and is perhaps most feature rich audio recorder for Android. The free version pauses mp3 and ogg format recording every 3 min which can be resumed. So either one can buy paid version or record in wav and later convert to mp3.
Another app capable of stereo recording is Easy Voice Recorder Pro (Paid version only, free version does not). But it is more costly than RecForge and have less features too.
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Thanks
For the stereo recording, I tried to improve options and features in RecForge II
It's in beta for the moment, but I think we're almost in a stable release. You can get it here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dje073.android.modernrecforge
To record in stereo, you will have to :
- Select "Audio Record -> Stereo (native)"
- Select the “Source -> Front microphone”
- No disabling of the AGC”
PS : this may not be visible in preview mod waveform, but it should work in recording mod
It doesn't work on all devices, I tried to establish a list of working devices here : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58769997/RecForgeII/html/faq.html (page in construction).
If you have more informations so I can fill this page, thanks in advance.
I have the Note 10.1 2014 Edition, and I have a professor that talks super fast and jumps around in his lectures. So I'd like to record them (mainly the audio) so that I can go back and listen to them later. What is the best app to use for this? Price doesn't matter, so doesn't have to be a free one.
I guess any audio recording app will do.
if u need note writing while audio recording, try lecturer notes with audio recording plug in. need to purchase separately.
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S Note do the job
matsuru said:
I guess any audio recording app will do.
if u need note writing while audio recording, try lecturer notes with audio recording plug in. need to purchase separately.
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this. Lecture Notes will give you the best flexibility - take notes and sketch right into your tablet. i don't use the audio plug-in, but it sounds a great option.
Note10.1Dude said:
this. Lecture Notes will give you the best flexibility - take notes and sketch right into your tablet. i don't use the audio plug-in, but it sounds a great option.
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Well I don't normally write/draw directly into it unless I'm in programming class and need to draw a tree or table or something. This is history and the professor just speaks too fast and jumps around for me to be able to keep up with him. I normally type my notes with my bluetooth keyboard, so mainly just need the audio. Just want the quality and volume to be great.
Hi folks
I was looking for a voice record application for meetings and lectures... I tried to much application from market... And I think I find the best solution:
SKYRO
It has got a clear voice
I recommend it
Best regards
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Personally i use recforge pro, it has the utility of using both mics for stereo recording, i use it in university o reunion.
My Recommendations
If you want a lot of features in addition to voice recording, I would recommend Cogi
Else, I would highly recommend Audio Recorder by Sony
I use the native sound recorder, only record, stop, play, and erase (all for the current recording, when you finish it will close) the bad thing is that everything you record goes into a .3gpp file, not a .mp3, .wav, blablabla. But with a file explorer you can change it and still play it
to use de native sound recorder if do not appear on your aplications use nova > Direct access > Activies > Sound recorder
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If you want a lot of features in addition to voice recording, I would recommend Cogi
Else, I would highly recommend Audio Recorder by Sony
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i'm al so using Audio Recorcor from sony beause it's support stereo microphone.
Amazing Audio recorder
Amazing audio recorder. The best I stumbled upon. Give it a try.
acnidre said:
Hi folks
I was looking for a voice record application for meetings and lectures... I tried to much application from market... And I think I find the best solution:
SKYRO
It has got a clear voice
I recommend it
Best regards
To me Easy Voice Recorder Pro sounds more interesting...
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Skyro sometimes get hanged in my Moto G so i switched to Easy Voice Recorder PRo
Skyro v 3.0 Material designed app
Skyro's new version is completely re-designed with beautiful themes and ability to add photos to the recording.
Over all experiance is improved a lot. Best voice recorder app for android.
try it worth
I have tried several apps for live music recording and I get saturation. Only the video camcorder records a clear audio, but I don't want the video, only the audio. (Sorry for my English)
There is one and only voice recorder with some unique feature like " Noise cancellation test/ dual mic test" as well as stereo recorder... I like that most. just search "voice recorder sony corporation"
Hi. What is the best way to record audio at concert?
Default Audio recording android app is bad, but audio using video recording is much better.
Is there some audio recorder app in store that give better quality for audio recording?
Thanks
I use smart voice recorder it does real good with music in my opinion
I found the default app (LG?) much too loud (very high gain).
Tried a few, I now use titanium recorder. Not for concerts though, just general recordings (bonus: it's free)
hi q mp3.?
raptorddd said:
hi q mp3.?
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This ones a good one to
Thanks..i need best quality. Smart voice vs easy voice? Or something else? Is there some technical comparison that shows differences between sound recorder in case of loud music? Thanks
EPa said:
I found the default app (LG?) much too loud (very high gain).
Tried a few, I now use titanium recorder. Not for concerts though, just general recordings (bonus: it's free)
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You can try Secret Voice Recorder. Apart from providing you the best quality voice recording, the app lets you start and stop voice recording simply by pressing the power button 3 times within 1.5 seconds. The power button gesture will work even if your mobile is locked.
I am the developer of the application. If you got any suggestion or feedback, let me know. I will look into it and fix it.
I suggest you to try Apowersoft audio recorder software where you can record your voices, record from music streaming sites and more. You can also save audio in high quality and get deal on the product from dpcoupon.com