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.

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Record Audio from System/Microphone/Applications with ‘Audio Recorder’, Available for Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Noobs Lab)