To all my Mac users out there: What are you using to record Skype calls? Anyone know if Audacity 2 will allow Mac users to record system audio?
Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro works for that.
Audacity 2.0 Released
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Re: Audacity 2.0 Released
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
records system input
Correct me if I'm wrong but it can only record your input, not the other side of the conversation - if you change the setting to record from stereo then the person you're talking to on Skype just hears themselves echoing back.
My personal use for audacity other than randomly playing around with audio stuff was to clean up a CD of a radio recording from a decade ago, that over time had picked up scratches and noise, and managed to do a pretty awesome job overall.
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#13Very functional app, many thanks to everyone on the team, but please find someone to do some art. The branding, website, and UI are all terrible.
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#14I use Audacity all the time: with customers' permission, I will record short bits of our Skype calls if I think that later I might want to refer back to directions, requirements, etc. This saves needless note taking. Great app!
Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
This isn't what he's doing, but if you use an audio routing system like jackd on Linux or Soundflower on Mac OS X, you can capture audio output from one application (flash youtube videos, Skype, iTunes, etc.), mix it with your system input, route the superposition of both signals to Audacity, and record everything into the same stream. You can also use audio routing to mix a conversation into the input of an icecast server. That way you can stream a live Skype conversation mixed with music and sound effects into an Internet radio show while also recording and monitoring it.
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#15Audacity is sweet - now if they would just get someone on board to cleanup the UI - maybe some new buttons?
i'd prefer them to spend the time making sure the button works correctly. why is the UI so odious?
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#16Love it whenever one of these great free apps get major updates. Been using Audacity on and off for years.
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#17I use Audacity all the time: with customers' permission, I will record short bits of our Skype calls if I think that later I might want to refer back to directions, requirements, etc. This saves needless note taking. Great app!
Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
I listen through Skype calls with my laptop's speakers, and just hit the record button for potentially useful dialog. So, no integration with the app or sound card. BTW, for this to be useful, I try to record as little dialog as possible so in cases where I want to check something, I don't have a lot of material to listen to and sort out.
Re: Audacity 2.0 Released
#18> The Audacity Team is elated to announce the release of Audacity 2.0 for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, ...
Seems weird it's specifically GNU/Linux they support, yet they can't be dependent on GNU userland or GNU libc if they support Mac.
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#19> The Audacity Team is elated to announce the release of Audacity 2.0 for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, ... Seems weird it's specifically GNU /Linux they support, yet they can't be dependent on GNU userland or GNU libc if they support Mac.
A lot of people use "GNU/Linux" and "Linux" interchangeably to refer to the origins of the OS and not just the software that is being used. Pretty sure if you ask RMS he thinks that all distributions of Linux should be called "GNU/Linux".
Also, not sure what that has to do with them having a version of their software that runs on OS X. They could easily use libraries that aren't glibc for the Mac version.
Re: Audacity 2.0 Released
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
This isn't what he's doing, but if you use an audio routing system like jackd on Linux or Soundflower on Mac OS X, you can capture audio output from one application (flash youtube videos, Skype, iTunes, etc.), mix it with your system input, route the superposition of both signals to Audacity, and record everything into the same stream. You can also use audio routing to mix a conversation into the input of an icecast…
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