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j0h
Asked: 2019-06-06 13:22:42 +0800 CST

Where GNOME Sound Recorder save sound clips?

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I used GNOME Sound Recorder to record some sounds (as mp3), but now I cant find the files. I read that the files would be saved in my home directory (google). but they aren't there. The clips show up in the sound recorder app. So then I did locate *.mp3 which shows a bunch of my music files, but not the sounds I just recorded. so then I did sudo updatedb and tried the locate command again. no change.

Where are the sound files kept?

OS: Ubuntu Mate 18.10

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  1. Best Answer

    The application gnome-sound-recorder (version 3.28.1) saves files in the ~/Recordings/ folder, ie it creates a folder called Recordings in the users home directory. A search for ".mp3" won't find the files as they are saved as ".ogg" (OggVorbis).

    This can be confirmed, as Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy indicates, by using strace, eg:

    strace -e trace=%file,openat -o "| grep AT_FDCWD" gnome-sound-recorder

    which gives output like:

    openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/USER/Recordings/Clip 1", O_RDONLY) = 20

    Edit:

    As of 2022-02-05, on Kubuntu 21.04 using gnome-sound-recorder "40.beta" (40~beta-1) the file is named Recording 1 and placed in /home/$USER/.local/share/org.gnome.SoundRecorder/. @PaulM reports it being placed in ~/.var/app/org.gnome.SoundRecorder/data/org.gnome.SoundRecorder (v.40.0).

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