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 The **parecord** command counts on you knowing your own computer's audio configuration. This can seem overwhelming if you're not used to how Linux systems categorise audio, and even moreso if you have a computer with a complex audio setup.
-The first thing to keep in mind is that there are two basic types of audio happening on your computer: inputs and outputs. In Pulse Audio terminology, these are called //sources// (inputs) and //sinks// (outputs). The terms "input" and "output", of course, are from the point of view of Pulse Audio itself: Pulse Audio can //send// audio to **sinks** and //receive// audio from **sources**.
+From the perspective of Pulse Audio itself, there are two kinds of audio: sinks and sources. Applications using Pulse Audio send audio to //sinks// and they receive audio from //sources//.
+If you want to record everything happening on a system, then you want to record the //monitor// device: a special stream that mixes everything happening on your system together and plays it through your computer speaker.
+Find the device name:
+<code>
+$ pacmd list-sources  | grep name:
+   name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor>
+   name: <alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
+</code>
+The first device in this example, with the suffix **monitor**, is the
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