#Wiretap studio vs audio hijack pro free

Soundflower behaves like an additional system audio device, so for example to record streaming audio into Audacity you would select Soundflower as the output device in the application in which you are playing sound, and Soundflower as the input device on the Audio I/O tab of Audacity Preferences.

#Wiretap studio vs audio hijack pro free

Turn off compression in Wiretap Preferences if you want to import the recorded AIFF files into Audacity.Īlternatively if you are on OS X 10.2 and later you can use the free open source Soundflower system extension, on which Audio Hijack is based, too. You could use Audio Hijack or Wiretap instead, which will capture the audio to AIFF files directly from the player application. Macs almost always have no ability to record streaming audio internally off the built-in audio device. I even saw Soundflower referenced on Audacity's Wiki page discussing issues pertinent to Mac users. I could already record vinyl lps in Audacity through my line-in port, and this would just add more functionality. Although I could simply import audio files recorded with Wiretap Studio into Audacity, I kept seeing references to Soundflower on the web and I was intrigued.I WANTED to be able to record streaming audio with Audacity if I chose to do so. I also own and use Wiretap Studio, but I like some of the effects available in Audacity's editor that are unavailable in Wiretap Studio, (i.e., cut, copy, paste, and reverse, among others), so I also use Audacity.

You could try downloading Soundflower, a freeware app that allows you to route audio between applications that don't normally 'speak' to each other.

If you try it, let me know if it works for you. It works great for me, and I just recorded a few seconds of audio coming through an internet radio station playing through iTunes by switching sound sources on the fly it takes only seconds. Here's my post (below) from several months ago on a different thread, that addresses your question.