Recording and Playing Back Sound

From time to time, you may have the need to record sound from a microphone and save it to a digital file in Fedora Core 4 that you'll be able to play back later. Naturally, to start, you need to have a microphone plugged into the microphone jack of your computer. When you have a microphone handy and plugged in, recording sound is easy.

To start the sound recorder application in Fedora Core 4, choose GNOME Menu, Sound & Video, Sound Recorder. The Sound Recorder application starts, as shown in Figure 15.14.

Figure 15.14. The Sound Recorder application records sound from a microphone to a digital file that can be replayed later.

To record and save a sound, simply follow these steps:

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