cazabam said:
You could try
Audacity, which is a nice, free audio recording and mixing application. The website wasn't responding when I just tried to go to it, but that could just be my dodgy connection ... It's a really nice app, though. I use it quite a bit for recording analogue audio to MP3 thanks to it's nice tagging and splitting functionality.
yeah, it's a great app. Powerful editing tools. Some stability issues though.
I've noticed it's nowhere near as smooth on intel macs though. Playback is fine, but scrolling is a bit jittery. Also, I wasn't able to get the mp3 export plugin to work on my macbook - even though I had no troubles on my iBook. I don't think intel macs recognise that plugin, despite the fact that I downloaded the intel version of Audacity (the 'stable' version - there was also another beta version, which I haven't tried yet)
a little question:
how do i get the app to actually ONLY record whats playing on my computer atm?
i had the same prob with other apps that i either recorded the sounds coming in over the mic as well or only the mic...i tried changing it in the preferences but i couldnt select anything else than built-in-audio
any ideas?
heh, there may be a roundabout way of getting that done. To do some recording recently, I purchased a cord which goes from audio in (on the mac) to the headphone port of something else - and it allows you to record audio from the source like that. If you like, you could get a cable like that, plug one end into the headphone port of your mac, and the other to the audio in. I think it would loop the audio round through that and straight into the audio in
I got an app though, which supposedly records audio from pretty much any app - I'm not sure how it works as I haven't tested it yet. It's called Audio Hijack Pro - should be a free demo download from versiontracker.com. Might be worth checking out if you just want to record audio from your mac without cables.