You’ve likely found yourself in this position more than once: Your Mac is playing audio that you’d love a permanent copy of, but the application you’re using doesn’t provide a way to do that. While you could turn to one of the few commercial Mac applications that perform this task, there’s a way to go about it that won’t cost you a nickel. In this Macworld Video I show you how.

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Radium is a simple menu bar app that allows you to listen to pretty much any radio station you desire. You can import stations from iTunes, or from a URL, or you can just search a keyword, such as “indie” to bring up a handful of radios that meet that keyword.

Today I’m going to show you how to capture sound produced by your Mac for free.

Best Digital Radio App For Mac

The first thing you need is a copy of Cycling 74’s Soundflower, which you can get from cycling74.com. Install Soundflower and, if asked to, restart your Mac.

Now move to System Preferences, select the Sound preference, and in the Input and Output tabs, select Soundflower (2 channel). Doing this takes the audio playing on your Mac and routes into the Mac’s audio input circuitry, allowing you to then capture it.

To perform the capture, launch QuickTime Player, choose New Audio Recording from the File menu, and in the window that appears, make sure that SoundFlower is selected by clicking on the small triangle. In the Audio area below you have two options—High and Maximum. Both produce an AAC file encoded at 256 kbps. The difference is that High quality records at a resolution of 44.1 kHz and Maximum records at a higher quality of 48 kHz.

One thing you’ll immediately notice as you record is the sound of silence. You see movement in QuickTime’s meters but hear nothing from your Mac’s speakers. And that’s because the Mac’s audio is routed to Soundflower rather than your Mac’s speakers or headphones.

To hear what your Mac is recording, launch Soundflowerbed, which the Soundflower installed places inside the SoundFlower folder now inside your Applications folder. A new menu will appear in the Mac’s menu bar. Click on it and choose the output you’d like to monitor from—headphones jacked into the Mac’s headphone port, for example.

Now go about your capture and when you’re finished, click QuickTime Player’s Stop button. Close the window to name and save it as an audio file. This will save your recording as a 256kbps AAC file.

And that’s it, capturing your Mac’s audio on the cheap.

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  [ Hits: 10260 | Votes: 28 | Rating: 7.43 ]
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  [ Hits: 4398 | Votes: 3 | Rating: 6.67 ]
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  [ Hits: 5181 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 8.63 ]
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  [ Hits: 27685 | Votes: 41 | Rating: 7.59 ]
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  [ Hits: 1797 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 8.37 ]
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  [ Hits: 5473 | Votes: 35 | Rating: 6.8 ]
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  [ Hits: 2550 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 7.25 ]
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  [ Hits: 854 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 1 ]
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  [ Hits: 1368 | Votes: 3 | Rating: 8.67 ]
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  [ Hits: 919 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0 ]
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  [ Hits: 1119 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 1 ]
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  [ Hits: 1681 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0 ]
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  [ Hits: 415 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 10 ]
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  [ Hits: 521 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0 ]
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  [ Hits: 1964 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 6 ]
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  [ Hits: 11275 | Votes: 19 | Rating: 6 ]
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  [ Hits: 416 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0 ]
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  [ Hits: 1903 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 10 ]
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• Time Palette- World Time and Mapping software including Azimuthal Maps.
  [ Hits: 1561 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 8.75 ]
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  [ Hits: 2249 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 10 ]
• Visual Moon Tracking- Java moon tracking software runs on LINUX, Win 98, Win NT, UNIX, OSF, MacOSX
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  [ Hits: 730 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 2 ]
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  [ Hits: 1894 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 10 ]
• XASTIR- Xastir is program for receiving and plotting APRS position packets. Development is a collaborative effort of programmers and amateur radio enthusiasts from around the world. Xastir supports many map formats and is highly customizable.Xastir runs on Windows/MacOSX/Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/Lindows. It supports 125 map formats, several types of TNC's and weather stations, Festival speech synthesizer, AX.25 networking (Soundmodem/Baycom/SCC!) and seven languages!.
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  [ Hits: 544 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0 ]
• Yea Cabrillo2Adif Converter- Cabrillo2Adif A software for converting the radio logs from Cabrillo to Adif log format (for Mac OS X)
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  [ Hits: 182 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0 ]
• YeaLogger- Free ham radio logging software for Mac OS X by SM7YEA

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