Ennuicastr: Synchronized Multi-Track Audio and Video Recording on the Web

I have not tried this yet, but it sounds like an alternative to Zencastr and Riverside.

Ennuicastr is currently in beta, is written by Wereweasel, and is open source (client, server).

Details from their website:

“Ennuicastr is every podcaster and vodcaster’s new best friend: Easy to use, high-quality, synchronized multi-track audio and video recording, on the web, for free during the beta, and $1/hour or $10/month after.

“NOTE: Ennuicastr is currently in beta. In an effort to be helpful during the global COVID-19 pandemic, the author of Ennuicastr is making the beta free and public.

“However, please do remember that this is a beta. It will have bugs. It does have bugs. If you are using Ennuicastr during the beta and have Discord, please join the Discord server.

“Recording multiple users online is usually surprisingly difficult. Assuming they all remember to record themselves at all, the first task of any editor is to synchronize all their audio, and that alone isn’t as easy as it sounds. Even after the initial sync, different microphones have different timing crystals, so they’re liable to slowly drift out of sync. On top of all that, if one system has a problem and their recording is unusable, either the whole recording is a bust, or you’re forced to switch to a difficult-to-edit single-track recording. Ennuicastr aims to fix all of this.

“Ennuicastr is a web-based voice chat tool and audio recorder, which records in high quality (128kbit Opus or lossless FLAC), and is foolproof for end-users. All that regular participants have to do is click a link, give their name or nickname, and talk. Then, each user’s separated audio is available for download by the host, all perfectly synchronized to each other. That’s really all there is to it!”

Have you tried Ennuicastr yet?

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