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Audio Recorder

Audio Recorder - 3.2

record directly to AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, MP4, and WAVE

All Time: (4.7)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 3.2
Release Date: 2008-01-01
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 74,055
Downloads (all versions): 496,504

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Product Description:

  • Record from any default input device directly to an AIFF, Apple Lossless (M4A and MOV), MP3, MP4 (M4A and MOV), or WAV file
  • Monitor audio from the input device to the default output device
  • AppleScript support
  • Universal binary
  • Japanese localization by tai (tai@tekapo.com)

What's new in this version:

  • Added file recovery
  • Improve support for MP3 files in Windows Media Player

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • The LAME library for MP3 encoding

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Audio Recorder ReviewSolid, Simple, Efficient - Version: 3.2, 9/15/2008 09:20PM PST

soundscapes
Amazing piece of software that is perfect for recording mono or stereo sources in high pressure situations where it has to be right. The software's simplicity goes a long way toward this goal. I recorded a 30 minute wedding with flawless results a couple of days ago.

One reviewer mentioned problems with recording beyond 1 hour 50 minutes. I have tested Audio Recorder and this is not the case. I set the file type to Apple Lossless stereo with 1 minute save to disk intervals for a timed 2 hours using the built-in mic on my MacBook Pro 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM using OSX v10.5.4. From my communication with the author, Apple Lossless may be one of the least reliable format available for recording, thus it was a worst-case test and Audio Recorder passed with flying colors.

Even though I did a bunch of surfing, email and Word 2004 writing during the recording period, there wasn't a single glitch. This may be due to the minor 10% CPU cycles required by Audio Recorder. This is Mac software the way it's supposed to be done.

I even tried without success to make a contribution to the author. Amazing.
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Audio Recorder Troubleshooting ReportBeach-ball at 1 hour 50 minutes. - Version: 3.2, 9/10/2008 02:41PM PST

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rminkler
I'm trying to use Audio Recorder to archive shows for a low power FM radio station. We have consistently found that Audio Recorder becomes intermittently unresponsive around 1 hour 50 minutes. After a period of beachballing the program crashes. Sometimes part of the recording can be recovered.

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Audio Recorder CommentaryGreat accessibility - Version: 3.2, 8/25/2008 09:13AM PST

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cblouch
The author went the extra mile to make this app work well with Apple's Voice Over screen reader. Nearly everything is controllable via the keyboard and navigating around gives you clear status on what's going on. Only issue is the initial license agreement which is inaccessible. This has caused a number of blind users to reject it as unusable, which is unfortunate.
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