[moki]

We're working on a new version of WireTap (version 1.0.1):

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/

The main goals are as follows:

-- Attempt to fix/diagnose the hanging issues some people are experiencing on specific hardware configurations

-- Make WireTap work properly with 3rd party sound cards that support multiple sound out channels

-- Implement better error checking so that if something does go wrong, we can track down exactly what it is

-- Flesh out the online help to address the issue of recording iTunes playing with Sound Enhancer on, and then replaying that recording in iTunes with Sound Enhancer on (the double-enhancement of the sound makes it sound bad)

-- Fix any other outstanding issues

If you have any additional bugs, please let us know so we can attempt to address them in this update. We are probably not going to add any features in this update.

Anyone who has experienced any of these bugs, if you'd like to join our beta list to help us track them down, we'd welcome it. If you're interested, please send an email to: [email protected] Subject: WireTap beta -- and include the email address you'd like subscribed to the beta list.

Keep in mind that there can be a fair bit of email traffic on our beta lists, and set up your mail filters as appropriate.

Discussion on WireTap can be found here:

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/ub...pics&number=70

[yaro]

How about adding a timer. Is it very difficult?
The applescript method is a chore for every day recording.

[headbirth]

I would love to be able to hold down a key and record a quick notation to an audio file. No fancy interfaces just a key command.

[moki]

Originally posted by yaro:
How about adding a timer. Is it very difficult?
The applescript method is a chore for every day recording.

Honestly, no, adding a timer would be quite easy. It's just probably beyond the scope of what we want to do for 1.0.1 (a bug fix version).

[moki]

Originally posted by headbirth:
I would love to be able to hold down a key and record a quick notation to an audio file. No fancy interfaces just a key command.

yep, this is something we've considered doing for a possible "pro" version of WireTap. Or maybe if I'm bored one afternoon, I'll throw it into the free WireTap.

[moki]

Just seeded 1.0.1b1 to the testers:

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Left to do:

-- WireTap's error reporting currently sucks. This version is a debug build, which will create a "wiretap.log" file in your home dir. If you encounter any errors with WireTap, please send me the contents of this file so I can diagnose what is going wrong. This will help be focus on the best place to put more fallbacks, as well as better error reporting

-- The Installer currently launches WireTap, then quits it (if it isn't already running) because AppleScript seems to want to run it to see what events it supports. Hopefully there is some static data we can set to prevent this from happening -- the line in the installer is: osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e 'if (name of (every application process)) contains "WireTap" then' -e 'tell application "WireTap" to quit' -e 'end if' -e 'end tell'

-- Some people have made some pretty cool third party AppleScripts that talk to WireTap; I'd like to include them with the distro -- pending authorization

-- Further testing needs to be done on the uncompressed AIFF files -- if 8 bit is selected, the sounds appear to be gargbled

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Version history:

Version 1.0.1b1 -- 10/6/2003

-- Moved from StuffIt-compressed distribution to Internet-enabled disk images, because of continuous problems with the StuffIt file format

-- Fixed the installer so that it no longer copies .DS_Store files over on installation

-- Fixed the suffix of the "Timed Capture" AppleScript so that it works properly (previously, it opened as a garbled file in the Script Editor)

-- Updated the Japanese localization, and included a Japanese-localized version on the online help -- domo arigato gozaimasu, Pautha-san

-- Added a Swedish localization (complete with online help), thanks to Alexander Fornell -- if anyone else has any localizations they'd like to do, feel free to send them in, I'd be happy to roll them into the WireTap package

-- WireTap now uses gcc 3.3, with code at least minimally optimized for the G5 (and runs fine on other processor architectures as well)

-- Updated the version number to 1.0.1

-- Updated the AmbrosiaAudioSupport kext to 1.0.2, which addresses capturing audio from third party audio cards supporting >2 output channels and adds more paranoid error checking for deadlocks

-- Changed the AIFF writing code to use uncached FSWrite's -- there's no reason to cache the AIFF data we're writing out

-- Modified the WireTap help to add a question/answer for recording audio from iTunes with the "Sound Enhancer" on

-- WireTap should now be able to properly create "AIFF" files (as opposed to AIFC files) if the chosen compression method is "none". Some programs apparently cannot read AIFC files when the sound data contained therein is uncompressed, and others cannot read AIFC files at all.

-- Redid the installer entirely, so it uses a single packages instead of the cumbersome 'mpkg' format

-- Automated the build/packaging phase with shell scripts