# Audio / sound recording with RoR app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-sound-recording-with-ror-app/77803 "2006-03-07T13:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror-user)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-sound-recording-with-ror-app/77803/1 "2006-03-07T13:54:00Z")
hi all i want to provide audio recording facility with my Ror application , which can be stored in DB at server , for later use can anybody tell, how to implement this with RoR, as i dont hav much idea abt that thanx ---
**Author:** ![ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror-user)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-sound-recording-with-ror-app/77803/2 "2006-03-07T14:33:31Z")
use flashplayer and open source red5 (still in pre-alpha, but audio-recording works) or Macromedia Media Server for recordig and storing the audio, and javascript for clientside interaction with flashplayer. Beside of RoR skills, you need to be comfortable with Java (red5) and Actionscript (Flash) if you go the open source route. [http://odeo.com](http://odeo.com) is a good example of a RoR app with audio integration. ---
**Author:** ![ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror-user)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-sound-recording-with-ror-app/77803/3 "2006-03-07T17:37:33Z")
> use flashplayer and open source red5 (still in pre-alpha, but > audio-recording works) or Macromedia Media Server for recordig and > the audio, and javascript for clientside interaction with flashplayer. > Beside of RoR skills, you need to be comfortable with Java (red5) and > Actionscript (Flash) if you go the open source route. although youve called red5 ‘open source’ twice, i cant help but think thats not the case - its not in Debian or Gentoo, which is sort of a litmus test for ‘this app and/or its license is so f\*cked we won’t include it’. chances are it is some reverse-engineered thing that still requires the proprietary (and vapor on amd64 or powerpc) flash plugin for the actual recording. hopefully mplayer or vlc plugin camps add microphone support to their plugins, as the rest of the chain is already well served by open components -\> rails, lighttpd, ruby, afsp, sox, ecasound, lame, vorbis, ruby-libsndfile bindings, icecast etc. ---
**Author:** ![ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@ror-user](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror-user)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-sound-recording-with-ror-app/77803/4 "2006-03-07T17:55:40Z")
Carmen, yes, red5 needs the flash plugin at the client browser for the actual recording. Unfortuanetly, VLC or mplayer browser plugin will not reach the ubiquity of flash (flashplayer is on about 98% of all browsers) in the near and not so near future, no matter what features they add to it. red 5 [http://osflash.org/red5](http://osflash.org/red5) is open source (LPGL), but it is a Java application, so that might be the reason it is not in the linux repositories yuo mentioned.