[johnpaul]

Before I became a Mac user last winter, I relied on Windows to entertain me. If I wanted to record anything that played on my box, I ued a program called Total Recorder from www.highcriteria.com. Total Recorder was shareware ($12), and capable of recording anything playing through my sound card - whether streaming audio or an Mp3, I could record it. After being recorded, I could manipulate the file using Sound Forge, another Windows-only program.

That's what I'd like to do on my Mac, but I can't find a simple program that can record and save music as an Mp3. Some record only through the internal microphone (a bad idea if there is even the slightest background noise), and others through the line-in connection or the microphone, but none through the sound card. Others can record, but not as an Mp3. Does such a piece of software exist for Mac?

JP

[tae667]

1) You should post to software-forum
2) Wiretap is $9 and it'll do the job
3) Audacity is a great open source sound editor which should do the job for simple editing.

[Mr Heliums]

I've never seen anything better than Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack and AH Pro (www.rogueamoeba.com), another Macintosh-only program.