Sampling audio from computer

[ehbes]

Hi All

So when i was on a PC all i had to do was open audacity and press the record button and i could sample say a youtube video or something and it'd be all fine and dandy. But when i tried doing this when i got a Mac, such is not the case and i can't seem to figure it out i.e., it does not record the audio playing, but instead the sound of when i click my mouse. Is there simple way of fixing this? I'm aware that there are programs like wiretap that'll do this but my trial of it just ran out and I'm not gonna spend money on a liscence for a program if i can do it free in audacity.

Thanks!

[wub]

Have you set the input to Stereo Mix?

[CaveLvl]

Wouldnt solve all your problems but youtube to mp3 converters are available online for free
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[ehbes]

I have the recording device set to built in input if thats what you mean

[ehbes]

Wouldnt solve all your problems but youtube to mp3 converters are available online for free
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its not a youtube vid and theres no right click save file as..

[Sharmaji]

soundflower.

[ehbes]

soundflower.

I take it id you this to pass the audio into audacity?

[wub]

I have the recording device set to built in input if thats what you mean

Audacity should have a drop down menu to select the recording input. Change it to Stereo Mix.

[ehbes]

I have the recording device set to built in input if thats what you mean

Audacity should have a drop down menu to select the recording input. Change it to Stereo Mix.

all it said was either (1)mono or (2)stereo

switching it didn't do anything

[wub]

Drop down menu where it says 'Line In'. Switch to Stereo Mix.

[ehbes]

Theres no line in menu Wub and the ones that are there theres no stereo mix option.

I downloaded sound flower but I'm eternally confused on how its supposed to work if my audio source is coming from safari...

[ehbes]

fuck it I give up I'm gonna find yt vid and convert it ......

[6000]

haven't used a mac for a while but i used to use a program called audio hijack. it worked very nicely.

[Dzanjin]

@ehbrums1

Let me guess, you have audacity 1.3?

Audacity did a HUGE upgrade when they went to 1.3 and they changed a lot of options and the gui visuals as well.

@wub

Hey buddy

This is what his looks like I'm guessing:




I'm not sure how to do what you want for 1.3, but 1.2 is still available for download which makes it very easy to do what you want.

THE main reason for all this nonsense is because the audacity site says that the 1.2(.6) version DOES NOT SUPPORT windows 7 etc. blah blah blah so they want everyone to use the 1.3 BETA which is garbage in my opinion.

Pretty sure you can still get 1.2 to work with some compatibility mode magic or something. Good luck.

[ehbes]

Well I'm not on windows but i figured it out, Im using souldflower now and what my problem was getting audacity to recognize it but I've got now....and yes 1.3 sucks ass

[Dzanjin]

Alright man cool. I did find out how to do it on 1.3. It's real easy but took a long time to find what I was looking for. If you end up using windows again or if anyone else would like to know how to do it just hit me up.

[Huts]

You said you have soundflower yea? Go into your audio settings and change your output to shoundflower (ch2). Then in audacity change Playback to whatever you're using (built in, soundcard etc.) and recording devices to soundflower (ch2) and 2 (stereo) for channels. You won't be able to hear sound coming out of your speakers until you hit record, when you're done change your audio settings output back to normal and that'll be the only thing you've got to change whenever you want to record. That might be a shitty description but lemme know, I just got soundflower and stuff last week so I feel your frustration

[Surfr]

Audio hijack. You attach it to whatever app you want then record away. Demo version is fine for. Up to 10 minutes of recording or something. Works a treat

[ehbes]

You said you have soundflower yea? Go into your audio settings and change your output to shoundflower (ch2). Then in audacity change Playback to whatever you're using (built in, soundcard etc.) and recording devices to soundflower (ch2) and 2 (stereo) for channels. You won't be able to hear sound coming out of your speakers until you hit record, when you're done change your audio settings output back to normal and that'll be the only thing you've got to change whenever you want to record. That might be a shitty description but lemme know, I just got soundflower and stuff last week so I feel your frustration

Yeah I had to restart audacity to make it work that was the problem

[jrisreal]

how in the world did you get automation points set up like that?! I didn't even know audacity was capable of such things.