Existing users, 
Does WireTap capture the audio on the way to the Mac's sound system (ie: re-encoding an analog stream) or does it maintain the digital integrity of the media?
I suspect this is a higher-tech equivalent of holding your cassette recorder up to your radio's speaker to capture a song you want.
But for free, I guess you can live with any substantial loss of quality.
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So where is it capturing the audio from?
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Contributed by: Notary Sojac Wednesday, October 27 2004 @ 09:12 AM PDT
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So where is it capturing the audio from? - davidlaska
Is that similar to what I used to do with my legacy powermac 8100. I would play a song on a tracker (it did not use the sound control panel) and plug in a mini rca jack into the sound jack and loop it into the microphone jack. As it was playing I had another audio application ( which took control of the sound panel) recording it to AIFF. I always thought that might blew out the something on the board, but it did not and it worked fine for years. Another setup with the rca loop cable was playing a cd through a software equalizer or reverb unit and recording to AIFF to burn a new and improved CD. Mind me, I am not a sound expert.Tuesday, December 21 2004 @ 09:32 PM PST
So where is it capturing the audio from? - mike429.old
Think about what it means to re-encode the analog audio stream. That would take a hardware A-to-D converter, not software. So unless WireTap is somehow managing to route the analog output back to an analog input to a built-in A/D (such as would be used for the microphone), it's very unlikely that WireTap is doing anything other than the much more straightforward approach of intercepting the digitized audio before it gets to the computer's D/A converter.Reply to This
Sunday, November 07 2004 @ 03:40 PM PST