Defaulting to Portable Settings 1. Within audacity.app/Contents add the directories: Portable Settings Portable Settings/AutoSave 2. Set permissions on these two directories to 777 chmod 777 'Portable Settings' chmod 777 'Portable Settings/AutoSave'.
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.
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:
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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.
B) To listen to playback while recording, do the following:
C) Suggestion:
Want to try something simple, I recommend Wondershare AllMyMusic. Lightweight. User friendly. Intuitive.
Audacity For Os X Yosemite
Key features:
Technical specifications for Mac – Supported O/P format and settings:
Update 1 (For El Capitan):
SoundFlower is broken in Mac OS X El Capitan. Relax, there is a solution, in fact a better one.
Can't Open Audacity On My Mac - Audacity Forum
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.
Installing And Updating On Mac OS X - Audacity
And start recording the streaming audio (or whatever the system sound) flawlessly. Enjoy!
Installing And Updating Audacity On Mac - Audacity Manual
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