Finding recording devince for Mac

Audacity Help Forum
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Just loaded 3.3.3 into a MAC. Recording Device is grayed out. Speakers are playing audio but cannot record. What an I doing wrong? Thanks, Ed

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Windows guy here. After plugging in a USB recording device, you may need to do Transport > Rescan Audio Devices. Have you allowed Audacity microphone permissions ? See: Control access to the microphone on Mac - Apple Support

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I’m also a Windows guy…

If none of this helps, let the Mac guys know what you’re trying to record from… The built-in mic(?), a USB mic(?), an analog mic(?), a USB turntable(?), streaming audio(?), etc.?

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Thanks for the help. I’m using a MAC and I have audio on my desktop. I play the audio through the MAC’s speakers and want to record this. It works great on a Windows machine, but the Audacity on the MAC need a “recording device,” which there is not one – just the speakers.

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Yes - but not so well on a Mac. So Apple is in the music business so one might think they deliberately make it difficult to do this. Typically you would need some USB hardware (with at least line-in), and a loopback cable. Or some third party software can do this.

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Or it could be they’re helping maintain the stability of their machines.

I’ve been using iShowU audio capture. It creates new sound pathways. Older software was SoundFlower.

Koz