New Audio Products for Mac OS X Excite Reader 42
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.
I thought (Score:2)
Incorrect URL in Article (Score:5, Informative)
The URL points to Griffin Technologies, a strange manufacturer with a poorly-designed site. It should point to Griffin Technology [griffintechnology.com] instead.
Re:Incorrect URL in Article (Score:3, Funny)
Or maybe the submitter of a non-story to slashdot whom accidently submitted his own roller cleaner website instead of the great peripheral manufacturer...
Detour == sweet (Score:4, Interesting)
~GoRK
Thanks for the brilliant link (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thanks for the brilliant link (Score:2)
1. don't suck.
2. are more portable than real audio.
From someone who has been recording and mp3 encoding TAL for the past several years. It was not hard to do this with AppleScript and Mpegger...
Re:Thanks for the brilliant link (Score:2)
Hey not fair (Score:5, Funny)
Stream Ripper (Score:5, Informative)
Stream Ripper is GPL and good enough (records streaming web broadcasts to MP3).
Re:Stream Ripper (Score:1, Informative)
[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 str
Re:Stream Ripper (Score:2)
I seem to remember... (Score:3, Interesting)
Is there anything like that around today that compatible (both hardware and software required for this one) with current Macs?
Confusing title (Score:1, Offtopic)
I was all set to read about a text-to-speech enhancement for OS X. Laugh at me.
What I want is a DVD player app that handles dolby (Score:3, Interesting)
the new G5 computers have optical outputs, perfect for multi-channel sound. So when is apple going to release a multi-channel aware dvd player app?? anyone heard any rumors?
Re:What I want is a DVD player app that handles do (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What I want is a DVD player app that handles do (Score:4, Informative)
Dolby and DTS are competing companies, with different, competing formats that each bear their name.
Orderin Griffin stuff? Order from a reseller. (Score:5, Informative)
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:Orderin Griffin stuff? Order from a reseller. (Score:2)
I was going to order from macmall.com simply because I have dealt with them several times before, including my iBook purchase. They were even a couple of bucks cheaper for my PowerMate and the iMic (rca, line input to usb for audio in for computers with no audio in) so I figured I'd save a couple of bucks. Turns out, that macmall charges twice what Griffon charges for shipping. Both use Airborne Two
Re:Orderin Griffin stuff? Order from a reseller. (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, probably not. Many companies that have a reasonably high shipping volume have an arrangement with the shipper whereby they don't insure anything for loss in return for significantly lower prices. Part of the deal is, basically, 'unless we [Airborne] lose more than X amount of goods in a quarter, any of our losses are your problem'.
So I suspect that the person at Griffin was, well, we'll be charitable and call him/her confused. Whil
This American Life (Score:4, Insightful)
And the sound quality is better than live recording would be, as well.
More new stuff!! (Score:4, Interesting)
In other audio news (Score:3, Informative)
This American Life (Score:3, Insightful)
How bout you look into getting a subscription to This American Life [thislife.org] at audible [audible.com] so that the artists get a little extra something for their work if you really want to support them.
Triv
Re:This American Life (Score:2)
Re:This American Life (Score:2)
Griffin (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Griffin (Score:1)
Karma whore!! (Score:1)
More on Audio Hijack (Score:5, Informative)
Sweet! (Score:1)