Hi, I was trying a view devices with my Fairphone 4 to record audio via USB-C (some Soundblaster devices and an iRig HD2 ). In general the devices did work but unfortunately the resulting audio has very poor quality. Here you can listen to my iRig HD2 FP4 Recording . I tried the exact same setup on…

Fairphone Support wrote me an email: […] I’m sorry you are experiencing problems with recording on your Fairphone 4, but I have read a bit of your thread and I’m happy to hear you were able to solve your issue. Thank you for your input! We will make sure to forward these ideas internally regardi…

Thanks for contributing to the wiki! I personally would give it a :green_circle:, since you can still use the phone and the impact is relatively low since not many people use this (I suppose). I get it impacts your use case alot, but the wiki is more to give an objective overview of issues. But I’ll…

Thank you for your response. I compared the issue with the other yellow ones and each is kind of – you can still use the phone. That’s why for me it is a huge impact. Right now it means I have to take two smartphones with me to get the job done. So for me :orange_circle: :orange_circle: Medium imp…

Oh boy, at first I used the integrated audio recorder and Rehearsal Assistant (f-droid). The latter always gave me excellent results on my old phone and the linked audio file in the first post is an example of that quality. After reading a lot about sound issues on this forum I tried a third app fo…

That’s great to hear! But it sounds then also a non Fairphone issue, right? Since switching from app fixed it for you. What do you think? I’m asking in the context of the wiki. We should make sure it’s a collection of well tested issues that are really FP specific issues. This may sound like the app…

It seems that Fairphone’s audio recorder is the real issue. But you need to know that this might influence other audio apps. Because the other app I use still works perfectly fine on other phones – so this is definitely a Fairphone issue in some way. That’s why I would keep the issue in the Wiki. M…

I think this might be related: [image] Automatic audio ducking in videos Fairphone 4 Hi Fairphone Community, Upon playing back videos that I record on my Fairphone 4, I notice a strange artefact with the audio, especially when recording in quiet surroundings or with persi…

[image] Alexander_Holzinger: Fairphone’s audio recorder is the real issue. But you need to know that this might influence other audio apps Can you explain how the native recording app somehow is used by other apps? Do you have a source for that? I don’t think they can be related. Sure, the n…

I don’t think it uses the stock audio recording app. But it uses the same processed audio stream that the stock app uses. Both Audio Recorder and Open Camera let you select the raw audio input. So I’d argue the problem is on both sides. Fairphone’s audio processing pipeline is messed up, but on the …

[image] UPPERCASE: Can you explain how the native recording app somehow is used by other apps? Sorry I can’t. Maybe it is a native recording setting that can be used by apps and this setting is miserable on the fairphone 4 (speculations). I only know that I never had any issues with the other…

My point is not to delete it, but to make sure the list of issues are truly FP issues. Maybe reach out to the devs of the app to verify your assumptions, via a bug report for example. It will make the conclusions more solid if they can confirm this.

FP4 recordings via USB-C devices (e.g. iRig HD2) with the native recorder have very bad audio quality

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Razem February 18, 2023, 2:31pm 12

I think this might be related:

Audio processing is definitely an issue on FP4. Unless you choose raw/unprocessed audio stream, it’s full of these artifacts.