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?
Audacity plus Soundflower will do the trick.
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#22To 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.
I couldn't get audio hijack pro to actually do that.
no, wait. I could, but...
it's a pain to have to boot it up before a skype call - some earlier version would not record unless skype was loaded after AHP, for example.
I broke down and spent the whole $20 on ecamm's call recorded for skype plugin. http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/
It works. Exceedingly well. Each side of the conversation gets recorded in to a separate channel. You can set the quality. It does video, and you can get each side of the video out as a separate vid file too.
And it's always on. I have it set to record automatically, but it'll throw it away if it's I record most of my calls to customer service departments this way. "This call may be recorded for quality purposes" I take as them giving me permission to record the conversation, so I do.
Re: Audacity 2.0 Released
#23> 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.
True, but then again I can not see it running on a kernel alone.
So maybe on a Linux Platform they are dependent on the GNU toolchain.
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#24it works great but some visual polish wouldn't hurt...
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#25> 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.
RMS would say its weird that you think there is anything other than GNU/Linux...
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#26it works great but some visual polish wouldn't hurt...
i tried offering my help, mostly for web and icon work, but the developers never responded. i'm sure i'm not the first.
Re: Audacity 2.0 Released
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#28it works great but some visual polish wouldn't hurt...
Agreed. I was really hoping that with 2.0, there would be at least some attempt at refining the interface.
Compare the interface to Reaper (The Cockos team has three main contributors, right?), Cubase or Vegas, or if you want to get shiny, Propellerheads or Line6.
A fresh coat of paint goes a long way.
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#29Whenever I have used audacity to do simple audio edits I feel like I am using an elephant gun for a fly swatter. For some reason I never feel the same way when I use gimp to do the equivalent minor image modification.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, a…
On Windows my sound drivers include something called stereo mix. You can record this through audacity to get their side of the conversation. To record yourself as well you need to set your mic to playback through your speakers, but then you hear yourself speaking.
There may be a better way, but that's what I've always done if I needed to record on Skype.