There is an audio recording problem with some devices, even newer ones.  
The native audio recording sample rate appears to be a puny 8000 Hz, which 
means it can only render frequencies up to 4000 Hz.  This is a problem for 
my piano tuning app which must detect frequencies above 4000 Hz. to tune 
the top few notes.

So far I have only gotten reports of this problem on certain models of the 
LG G3 and the Nexus 7 (Asus).  The worst part is these devices do not 
return an error when we try to set up an audio input stream and request a 
sample rate of 22050 Hz.  Instead they take their 8000 samples per second 
and up-sample by duplicating each sample 2 or 3 times to give us audio that 
appears to be sampled at 22050 samples per second as requested, but it 
still cannot faithfully render frequencies above 4000 Hz, so our piano 
tuning app gives very strange results for the top few notes on the piano.

Does anyone here work with audio input apps and can you confirm this 
problem on any other devices?  You can test it out by sideloading our app 
from

  www.tunelab-world.com/atl.html

It will run in free-trial mode well enough to test this out.  To test for 
the sampling rate problem, tap on the large "A4" and select the note "B7" 
by tapping on the "7" first.  Then on a different device or computer, 
generate a tone at 3950 Hz.  One such on-line source is 

  onlinetonegenerator.com/

If this tone produces just one peak in the spectrum display at 3950 Hz, 
then everything is fine.  But if this produces two peaks - one at 3950 and 
the other at 4050, then you have a device that is sampling at 8000 Hz and 
then up-sampling to feed our app a fake 22050 samples per second.

-Robert Scott
 Hopkins, MN

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