New Audio Products for Mac OS X Excite Reader

Curious__George writes "I'm excited about a couple of new tools for audio for Mac OS X. One is the freeware WireTap from Ambrosia, which allows you to record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. Its functionality will be built into an upcoming edition of Ambrosia's Snapz Pro X screen capture product. The other is a product that will be shipping by the end of the summer from Griffin called RadioSHARK (retail: $49.95), which is essentially a radio TiVo for your Mac: a software-controlled AM/FM radio that allows you to record radio programs (either local or Internet broadcast). I'll never miss a broadcast of This American Life again!" Curious__George might also get excited about the new Detour from Rogue Amoeba -- makers of AudioHijack, a predecessor to WireTap that has more capabilities -- which allows detouring sound output from different apps to different devices.

Incorrect URL in Article

[medeii]

The URL points to Griffin Technologies, a strange manufacturer with a poorly-designed site. It should point to Griffin Technology [griffintechnology.com] instead.

Stream Ripper

[jamienk]

http://streamripperx.sourceforge.net/

Stream Ripper is GPL and good enough (records streaming web broadcasts to MP3).

Re:Stream Ripper

[Anonymous Coward]

Much more powerful than StreamRipperX... Try RadioLover [bitcartel.com]. Records multiple streams at the same time, and chops up the stream into songs or segments!

[source: website]
- Record Internet radio streams as individual MP3 songs
- Schedule recordings of your favourite daily or weekly shows
- Record multiple radio streams at the same time
- Split and organise recordings by song, time, or size
- Import radio streams from the Web and iTunes 3 or 4
- Automatically save, file and tag MP3s
- International language streams supported
- Record from thousands of Internet radio stations

Orderin Griffin stuff? Order from a reseller.

[Anonymous Coward]

Griffin's retail support sucked ass when I ordered my PowerMate. They shipped it Airborne, Airborne lost it (claimed to have dropped at door, no signature--someone was at home all day). Airborne said to call Griffin. Griffin said to call Airborne. This went on for days.

In a particularly galling example of piss poor customer service, a Griffin rep claimed they "had no legal obligation" to reship or refund. They found out otherwise when they got the chargeback from my bank, I imagine.

Successfully ordered without incident from Small Dog Electronics (no affiliation except as a satisfied customer).

Re:What I want is a DVD player app that handles do

[AvantLegion]

There's no such thing as "DOLBY DTS".

Dolby and DTS are competing companies, with different, competing formats that each bear their name.

In other audio news

[coolmacdude]

Apple has resleased their own sound editing app, Soundtrack [apple.com]. This was previously available as part of Final Cut Pro, and is now a standalone app for $299.

Griffin

[martingunnarsson]

Griffin technology really make sexy things! I just got a PowerMate (USB volume knob that can be programmed to execute any key combination in any program) and I just love it! Yum!

More on Audio Hijack

[nicky_d]

I'm a big fan of Audio Hijack - the first piece of shareware I ever found irreplacable enough to purchase - so I thought I'd expand a little on the 'more capablities' comment for anyone mildly interested (but not to the point of clicking the link). AH lets you record any source with the usual encoding options, and offers you a timer utility so you can set yr Mac to kick off at 4am or 1pm or whenever you happen to be in bed, and snag that shipping forecast / radio soap / opera/ whatever. Good feature, but I've never used it, because the killer IMO is the VST / AudioUnit support - you can plought the signal through any number of plugin effects before it hits the hard drive. Pack in a free VST grain delay, pitch shifter, bitcrusher and reverb and you can turn any sound source into a live glitch-up session and get some turly incredible results for the price. Or just hijack a DVD sountrack while you watch and use AH to bump the pitch up an octave. Paid for itself the first time I did that, easily.