Audacity For Mac Yosemite

You can easily capture, record and export live streaming audio, without destroying the quality, using Soundflower and Audacity, which are free tools. This following method can also be used to capture whatever sound that is played on your Mac machine.

Audacity is not bundled with OS X, but Audacity provides a lot more control and advanced tricks for recording sound from a Mac. You can edit the audio, change pitch, tempo, remove background noise, record multiple tracks, it's pretty great if you're looking for a solution more advanced than QuickTime's sound recording features but without. Audacity for Mac is a powerful audio editing tool that surpasses default OS X tools. The downsides are a dated and sometimes clunky interface and a cumbersome. OS X Yosemite OS X Mavericks.

1. Download and install the latest Open-Source Audio Routing tool Soundflower.
2. Download and install the excellent Open-Source Audio Editing tool Audacity.
3. If required and you wish to export the captured/recorded audio stream to MP3 file format,

• Download and install LAME MP3 Encoder as well. Or get it directly from here. Once installed, go to Audacity -> Preferences -> Libraries and verify whether it's properly located. If not click on the «Locate» button to locate it.
• Or go to Audacity -> Preferences -> Libraries and click on «Download» button and follow it from thereon.

Start Soundflower (Soundflowerbed) and if required, complete the initial configuration. Soundflower icon will now be sitting on the Task Bar.

Soundflower has two modes: 1) Soundflower (2ch) – two channel and 2) Soundflower (16ch) – 16 channel along with other configured Audio Input/Output peripherals. While Mac's Internal Speaker has 0 Inputs/2 Outputs and Internal Mic has 2 Inputs/0 Outputs, Soundflower (2ch) has 2 Inputs/2 Outputs and Soundflower (16ch) has 16 Inputs/16 Outputs.

Now to capture/record live streaming audios:

1. Go to System Preferences,  -> System Preferences -> Sound -> Output and select Soundflower (2ch) as Output.
2. Under Sound Effects, disable all sound effects so that they will not interfere and spoil a clean recording process.
3. Now launch Audacity.

• Either go to Audacity -> Preferences -> Audio I/O, and under Recording, change the Device to Soundflower (2ch). Leave the Output Device as Built-in Output, so that you can monitor the recording process.

• Or change the settings directly in Audacity itself.

Now, you can easily record any audio streamed through internet with great quality.

First start the Audacity Recording by clicking on Record button. Then start any internet or other live stream audio (which you have already readied for playback) so that recording goes correctly. Later, you can edit the recorded sound, add effects or make any other audio manipulation that can be done using Audacity.

Once recording is done and stopped, go to File -> Export, select your favorite format like mp3, wav, aiff, etc. and click on Save. It will open another window for Tag Editting. Fill it if required or just proceed with exporting. Voilà, now you have recorded and exported a live streaming audio with same quality as streamed using Soundflower and Audacity.

Don't forget to change the audio settings back to normal after recording your favorite audio streaming. And please respect Copyright rules.

Now to capture/record live streaming audios:

1. Go to System Preferences,  -> System Preferences -> Sound -> Output and select Soundflower (2ch) as Output.
2. Under Sound Effects, disable all sound effects so that they will not interfere and spoil a clean recording process.
3. Now launch Audacity.

• Either go to Audacity -> Preferences -> Audio I/O, and under Recording, change the Device to Soundflower (2ch). Leave the Output Device as Built-in Output, so that you can monitor the recording process.

• Or change the settings directly in Audacity itself.

Now, you can easily record any audio streamed through internet with great quality.

First start the Audacity Recording by clicking on Record button. Then start any internet or other live stream audio (which you have already readied for playback) so that recording goes correctly. Later, you can edit the recorded sound, add effects or make any other audio manipulation that can be done using Audacity.

Once recording is done and stopped, go to File -> Export, select your favorite format like mp3, wav, aiff, etc. and click on Save. It will open another window for Tag Editting. Fill it if required or just proceed with exporting. Voilà, now you have recorded and exported a live streaming audio with same quality as streamed using Soundflower and Audacity.

Don't forget to change the audio settings back to normal after recording your favorite audio streaming. And please respect Copyright rules.

Edited later:

A) Soundflower works great with QuickTime 7.x as well (Mine is 'Pro'. I'm not sure about 'Non Pro'). But no luck with QuickTime 10.x.

Third party mac app store. B) To listen to playback while recording, do the following:

1. Launch Soundflower. From menu, under Soundflower (2ch), select 'Built-in Output' (pervious one would be 'None (OFF)').
2. Open System Preferences. Under Sound, set Soundflower (2ch) as both Output and Input.
3. Now open Audacity. Set Soundflower (2ch) as 'Recording Device' and 2 (Stereo) as 'Recording Channels'. Leave Built-in Output as 'Playback device'.

C) Suggestion:

Want to try something simple, I recommend Wondershare AllMyMusic. Lightweight. User friendly. Intuitive. Vmware fusion pro 8 5 1.

Key features:

• Easy to Use – Just One-Click Smart Recording.
• Play and Record Automatically – Records only when Audio is played. Stops and Splits when Silence.
• Record Audio with 100% Original Quality (1:1 Quality Ratio Lossless Audio).
• Identify Songs and get Music Info.
• Personalize Your Recordings – Tag Editing, Metadata Retrieval, etc.
• Seamless Integration with OS and iTunes.
• Drag and Drop CD Burning Tool.
• Record Unlimited Free Music – Over 500 Radio Stations, YouTube, Pandora, Yahoo Music, etc.
• Available for both Mac and Windows.

Technical specifications for Mac – Supported O/P format and settings:

• Format : MP3 (*.mp3), M4A (*.m4a)
• Sample Rate : 44100Hz
• Encoder : .mp3:(MP3), .m4a:(AAC)
• Bit Rate : 256kbps, 320kbps

Update 1 (For El Capitan):

SoundFlower is broken in Mac OS X El Capitan. Roland camm1 servo drivers for mac. Relax, there is a solution, in fact a better one.

• Download the newest version from here: Soundflower 2 (Signed. Beta version)
• Double click to mount the downloaded .dmg file.
• Run 'Uninstall Soundflower.scpt'
• REBOOT. It is a must. You need to Reboot.
• Run the installer 'Soundflower.pkg'. That's it!

Previous SoundFlower is 2ch & 16ch. This one is 2ch & 64ch. You cannot find this new version installed in 'Application' folder and hence you cannot directly launch it. It is installed as 'Kernel Extension'. But, you can find SoundFlower options in 'System Preferences -> Sound' and 'Audacity Preferences'. Enjoy!

Update 2 (For QuickTime Player):

SoundFlower works (including the newest version) great with QuickTime Player 10.x (recent one is 10.4 (854)) as well.

• Go to 'System Preferences -> Sound'
• Set both 'Input' and 'Output' as SoundFlower 2ch
• Open QuickTime Player -> File -> New Audio Recording

And start recording the streaming audio (or whatever the system sound) flawlessly. Enjoy!

Thanks for the read and please leave comments 🙂

Audacity is a great piece of software (and also has a portable apps version that runs from a USB flash drive). I was wondering if anyone has any luck creating Automator workflows for Audacity. I would love to be able to get Automator to go through a directory of files and normalize, trim and then export to MP3….

The portable apps version sounds great. Where can that be found? I don't see mention of that on Audacity's download pages. I could really use that now & then.
Now that I think about it, isn't any OSX version of this a portable apps version?
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What clown decided that the iPod calendar view didn't need to show you the Location field? I guess they always use the same room at Apple.

Audacity is a wonderful app. however a Universal build has been slow to come, and compiling the source is problematic on the new intels. Also of concern is the length of time between releases (the last releases coming in Novemeber of last year!). 1.3 will be great once it is really working.
If anyone out there has been succesful in an Intel build, please let us know how you did it! Left 4 dead 3 free pc game full version.

I have used Audacity on my PC more than a few times. As with most good open source projects, there are good tutorials for beginners on the web, it is very intuitive to use and its built-in noise removal function is great (well, you have to do some trial and error to find right amount of applied before you start affecting the quality of the recording). As an occasional and not so demanding user of an audio recording tool, I found it much more intuitive and easier to use than GarageBand, which does not have noise removal capability. Unfortunately, Mac version (on my intel) does not seem to be as stable and well-behaved as the Windows version. Maybe universal version will help solve the problem, but I was sort of told not to expect it before intel based PowerMac replacements come out. I tried to compile on my own, but it did not work out well. Bummer.

I've used it for years, even for professional work, because it's easily had, it's free, it does the basics very well, and, once I put in the time [not much needed] to learn its interface, I'd rather do it in the app I already know, than pull up a more powerful app to do the same thing.
Audacity helped me a lot with its spectrogram view, too --- I used that to make a series of images for a professor who teaches educators of the hearing-impaired, for example.
The developers are particularly responsive to disabled users, and do more to make this app accessible than most folks. I'm impressed with the dedication and the responsiveness of Audacity's developers. Top notch. Far and away the finest example of free, open source software I've yet encountered.
The email list for users is also top notch -- full of helpful, knowledgeable users, of all abilities, and frequented by developers of the program. I can't say enough great things about Audacity, but I've got to stop somewhere. Get it if you think you need audio editing software.
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What clown decided that the iPod calendar view didn't need to show you the Location field? I guess they always use the same room at Apple.

I should add that I've not yet used an Intel Mac, so I haven't encountered the problems I see mentioned with Audacity on those machines. That would be a bummer, if I had to rely on it, but here's how I look at it: if I *must* rely on a software tool, then I *must* keep a machine that will run that tool. Also, I *must* have a reliable tool, which, in this case, suggests that my already-ordered MBP will need a different audio editor if I expect to use it for that kind of work.
Thanks for mentioning the Intel problems!
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What clown decided that the iPod calendar view didn't need to show you the Location field? I guess they always use the same room at Apple.

I used it once to record a live dj mix from my turntables and mixer. I doesn't seem it is very well designed for recording stuff longer than a couple of minutes. It crashed hard on me after about an hour (and the GUI was a mess before the crash too. It was like it had restarted from the beginning of the timeline when I reached a certain length of recording). Had to start the mix over from the beginning. Since then I cannot trust it.
Now I record everything in Logic Express and couldn't be happier!

For long recording projects, I have had excellent results with Ardour. It requires X11 and Jack, but is by far one of my favorite audio tools.
Josh

But there are alternatives, and the audio editor in my Dock is Amadeus II. It has tons of features -- for example, a pitch/timestretch which gave better results than both of Cubase's ones; very powerful denoising and declicking, and it can use VST plug-ins too. And its interface seems very well designed; I find it quick and easy to do some pretty complex editing. It'll do the obvious stuff like timed recording, normalisation, stereo balancing, echoe, EQ and some pretty advanced filtering, and it has a range of spectra, sonograms and other analysis tools. It's shareware, but pretty cheap, and the author has been pretty responsive to suggestions. (Disclaimer: no connection other than as a happy user.) Well worth a look.

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