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Record Audio From Any Mac OS X Application
MrFreak writes "Have you ever wanted to grab a sound from DVD Player or record a RealMedia stream to AIFF? It's previously been impossible to do this digitally, but the folks at Rogue Amoeba have released a piece of software called Audio Hijack that allows you to record audio from any OS X application. Additionally, it can apply live audio effects to any application, so you can add an equalizer to MAME or play Quake 3 with a live echo or flanger effect."
It's too easy to do on a *nix-like box: just sit on a tee between /dev/audio and you can get any sound you want. This is why we want OS X to be our desktop going forward, but if we don't keep our voices down about it, somebody's going to throw something better than a legal padlock on it!
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Total Recorder from High Criteria does this on Windows as well.
Is there any real reason you'd want to do this? the audio is there already, you're just duplicating data.
I don't know about you, but I've been able to do this with my Sound Blaster Live! Value, always. Even with the newest version of the the Creative AudioHQ. All you do is set the recording device to Wav/Direct Sound and record with your favorite recording software. You can use the EAX or the Advanced EQ if you want.
There is also "What U Hear". Which allows you to record everything that comes out of your speakers. So I can record my Line in, a playing mp3, and my friend on the microphone simultaneously.
The ability to do this on the mac may be a new thing. And it's obviously a nice way around some DRM. But it's been around for a long time. At least 3 years.
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I've been playing around with this thing, and sure you got applications on other platforms which can JUST capture sound. But this thing is way better than any of that. I mean having so many different effects you can use with DVD audio or basically any app, especially those which don't let you record normally, or save out the audio, this is dammnnnn nice! Never seen anything come close to ALL this can do!! I love it already!
I wanted to do something similar under Linux (i.e. capturing the audio output from a quicktime player running under WINE) and a quick bout of Googling turned up dsproxy which worked very nicely, thankyou very much.
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On the Macamp site you can download a plugin which allows you to use Macamp to grab any audio from within Mac OS 8 or 9, including 'forbidden' RealAudio streams and the like.
I used to use Streambox Ripper for the same purpose on Windows. I believe Real shut that program down.
"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." - Steve Jobs on Bill Gates
This new audio app's more novel use is to do real-time sound processing for audio (like making your Mac sound like it's in a cathedral.) Kind of like those high end surround sound systems for home entertainment centers.
Those who complain about affect & effect on
We already have this in Linux (*BSD, etc.). It allows you to rip RealAudio streams, et. al.
... /dev/dsp for sound) without having to modify or
~/> dpkg -p vsound
Package: vsound
Description: Virtual loopback sound recorder and real audio converter
This program allows you to record the output of any standard OSS
program (one that uses
recompile the program. It uses sox to convert and save the raw data
into the desired file format and can help to convert real audio files
to some other non-proprietary format.
The website for vsound is here.
Marques Johansson
Hmm. Now I can record Daljit Dahliwal's ITN signoff from their Real broadcasts. Yum.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of neurons.
I assume the reverb/eq etc that are automatically enabled with the app are Mac OS X "Audio Units"?
Can anybody enlighten me here?
Now I don't need to wire up a loop between my headphone out and microphone in jacks to rip audio from protected QuickTime movies that don't let you extract the tracks.
Now I just need a way to capture motion video from an arbitrary region of the screen.
The anti DRM capabilities seem to be its most lauded application. Fortunately, naming it "Audio Hijack" will calm the RIAA's fears. :)
I go to the site, click on the download button, and instead of getting a nice little dialog box asking me where I want to download to, my screen starts filling with reams of gobbleygook. (I'm on a high speed connection using W98; the plan is to download, burn to a disk, and install on my iBook. Browser is Opera 6.05.)
OS X:*nix for the real world.
Same procedure applies, though. Maybe it's a file association problem. I'm using stuffit on win at work and all is well except for DMG files.
Weren't we just talking about how this kind of tweaking and hacking is supposed to be impossible with Mac OS X?
That was about UI customization.
Now they just need to do the same thing for video output!
Anyone know of an app that can record the audio from a modem in a PowerMac G4? I want to get back at some telemarkters next time they call and record it . . .
Unless macOS comes up with a similar mechanism, Apple might have a hard time convincing the usual crowd to package streams for their OS at some point in the future.
Then again, you could point out VMWARE makes Secure Audio Path an exercise in futility.
It's an arm race, and I'm not sure how the DRM side can win it.
It's previously been impossible to do this digitally
Except for the sample code Apple has given away for years... (for OS9)
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Isn't MP3 a patented, but licensed, proprietary format from some German company? The name escapes me. Just thought it was funny that one would go from one propietary format to another. Ironic, actually. Why not ogg? Assuming, since this is the Mac, that someone could write an ogg plugin for iTunes encoding and decoding.