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October 2

How can I record something I hear and send it to someone like a screen shot?

I was hoping someone could tell me what the difference was between the volume of two radio stations. The computer's volume is set at 27 (Microsoft Edge, Windows 10) but there are no numbers on the radio station web sites' volume controls.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:35, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your related question on another desk and tried poking around. Unfortunately, your computer can't "listen" to sounds to determine the difference in volume between two sounds. You'd need external hardware (such as a microphone) and the appropriate software to measure decibels. If you find out something different, I'd be very interested in finding that out! RedLinkJ (talk) 15:41, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If the computer itself is emitting the sound, surely at some point the data is available. This gives multiple ways to do so, for instance using Audacity to intercept data going to the sound card. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:59, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As far as uploading the file to Wikipedia, we accept the OGG and OGA audio formats. StuRat (talk) 16:09, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know that I could do that given that these are radio stations and the content being recorded might not be allowed.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:01, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't seem to have Audacity but I think I've gone as far as I'm going to with this.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:14, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are you trying to record the streaming from the radio stations' websites, or is your computer using a radio card to listen to the stations directly? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty | Averted crashes} 20:16, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The stations are streaming. I don't know what a radio card even is.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:20, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Approximately what percent of emojis are en.wiki redirects or articles

❓Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:19, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zero, because emojis are ideograms (pictures), not any kind of redirects or articles. But maybe you mean something other than what you wrote. CodeTalker (talk) 23:12, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you copy an emoji like you'd copy a character, paste it in the box and click go it can redirect to an appropriate article like [1]. Replacing an article's name in the address bar with an emoji also works. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 23:33, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I still don't understand what you mean. Are you referring strictly to use of emojis in Wikipedia, or generally on the Internet? I also don't know what you mean by "the box". I went to the page you linked to, copied the question mark and pasted it into my browser's address bar, and it just pasted the question mark emoji, and took me to the Google search page for that character, as it would if I pasted any other character or piece of text. I pasted it into the Wikipedia search box and it took me to the Question mark article. There's nothing special about emojis in either of these cases; they would do a similar thing if you paste any other character. Pasting "x" into the Wikipedia search box takes you to the article about the letter x.

After more puzzling about this, maybe you're asking how many emojis have a Wikipedia article written about them. Is that your question? CodeTalker (talk) 21:30, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I assume the question is about page names consisting of a single character from Emoji#Unicode blocks, e.g. the Unicode character 🙂 which displays as a yellow smiling face for me and redirects to Smile. A character may have an article, a redirect or neither. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:53, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's what I meant. What fraction of emojis are the names of 1-character English Wikipedia redirects or articles (I suppose a few might actually be articles). Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:14, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The only way you're going to get an answer is by counting them. We're not going to count them for you. ApLundell (talk) 22:36, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]