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recording
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:11 am
by teepee
hi
i am new to audacity AND mac.
can i use audacity to record a track from my i tunes directly to audacity in an mp3 format with out having to use a recorder?
i mean - if i play a song on my mac ( thru itunes) can i record it on Audacity while making noise and working on the mac. Or do i need to be quite as in conventional olden day recordings?
thanx in advance
tp
Re: recording
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:54 am
by kozikowski
No. Audacity doesn't do anything in MP3 format because of the damage it causes. You can capture and edit in Audacity in high quality WAV format and then Export to MP3 later if you want.
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... mputer#Mac
Koz
Re: recording
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:57 am
by kozikowski
You can also drag a track out of iTunes to your desktop and use it in production if you want. This doesn't work if you purchased your music in the iTunes store.
A classic way out of this is burn the song to a Music CD and then mount and rip the CD.
Koz
Re: recording
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:46 pm
by teepee
hi,
thanx for your reply.
can i then play the songs thru i tunes - or qiuck time OR anything else. AND record to any format that will allow me to save it into i tunes?
- if yes please tell me how to do it
thanx
Re: recording
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:24 pm
by kozikowski
Are you using a new Intel Mac with Leopard or Snow Leopard?
Apple > About This Mac > Processor and Version. Read both of those entries.
The answer to that will fundamentally change the rest of the answer.
What are you actually trying to do? We work better with a goal rather than "How do I use my Mac?"
<<<record my iTunes...>>>
Is that a euphemism for recording radio shows that mount on iTunes?
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... e_computer
But if you already have Purchased Music on your iTunes, then create a new empty playlist and drag your music to it. Burn the playlist to a CD. Change the iTunes import preferences to WAV instead of AAC or MP3. Put the CD in the Mac and the music will appear in iTunes.
Change Audacity preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo from wherever it is now.
Drag the ripped music from iTunes to the desktop and open in Audacity.
Export as WAV when you're done in Audacity and that WAV file will open up everywhere on any computer.
One of the reasons Audacity uses WAV as a default sound format is that WAV causes the least sound damage and will open up and play everywhere.
Koz