Open Source Mac Audio Recording Software

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

OBS Studios, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. Stream on Windows, Mac or Linux. This software is commonly used by video game streamers on the popular streaming platform Twitch.

NOTE: This site is not maintained anymore. If you want to get the latest news and releases please visit https://danielnoethen.de/butt. butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer may be extended by plug-ins as well as embedded in other applications.

You-Get is a small command-line utility for downloading media (video, audio and images) from the Web when there are no other means to do so. It can download video and audio files from such popular web sites as YouTube, Twitter, Niconico, Vimeo, Flickr, Instagram and a whole lot more. You-Get is a great option for when you want to enjoy your favorite videos, audio or images from the internet without having to open any web browsers or get interrupted by ads. It’s also a good choice for when you want to get rid of any closed-source technology or proprietary JavaScript code from running on your computer.

PortMedia was created to develop and share cross-platform, open-source I/O libraries for digital media including MIDI, video, and audio. Only a few things were released under the PortMedia umbrella. These are now hosted by the github.com/Portmidi/ project, where you can find the lastest versions of PortMidi, portsmf (Standard MIDI File support and more), and see github.com/rbdannenberg/scorealign for MIDI and/or Audio score alignment.

XMOS based, USB2 audio card, low power consumption, small form factor, 8 synchronous input channels and 4 stereo output channels.

Enterprise telephony recording and retrieval system with web based user interface. The project currently supports recording voice from VoIP SIP, Cisco Skinny (aka SCCP), raw RTP and audio sound device and runs on multiple operating systems and database systems. It can record audio from most PBX and telephony systems such as BroadWorks, Metaswitch, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, OpenSIPS, Avaya, Nortel, Mitel, Siemens, Cisco Call Manager, Cosmocom, NEC, etc... It is amongst others being used in Call Centers and Contact Centers for Quality monitoring (QM) purposes.

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.

========================= WEBCAMSTUDIO IS NO MORE MAINTAINED ========================= We are looking for someone to take over. If interested please contact: soylent.tv@gmail.com WebcamStudio is a multifeatured virtual webcam software that can be used with Skype or a flash website like UStream, to create a professional looking broadcast, including banners, animations, transit animations and icons, etc... This tool is not meant as a video editor but as a live video mixer giving you the possibilities to change the look of the broadcast on the fly. For more info about the WebcamStudio project, please visit our Wiki Home page: https://sourceforge.net/p/webcamstudio/wiki/Home/ IMPORTANT: ======= The former homepages of the project: http://code.google.com/p/webcamstudio http://ws4gl.org should be considered only as a reference to old project news, forums, info etc. Have in mind that some of these old links may not work anymore.

Krut Computer Recorder is a screencast tool to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to e.g. make video tutorials or record games. It could also be used to record streaming video and audio.

HyperEngine-AV, Arboretum Systems' award winning video editing software is now free, complete with full source code. Users can capture, arrange, edit and process video, audio and text in a free-form, trackless document, to create movies and slide shows

DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server. Darkice website is http://www.darkice.org/

StreamRipperX for OS X lets you save Internet radio streams, song by song as MP3 files.

StreamRipStar is a java written graphical frontend (gui) for streamripper, which saves separate options for each stream. In addition is has a scheduler and can load stream from the web.

This project develops video conferencing and VoIP applications for Mac OS X. XMeeting is based on the work of the OpenH323 project which provides the libraries for H.323 and SIP support.

The famous Elpetozede-Project has moved to Github: https://github.com/mijoskutt/elpetozede

Version 1.1 is no longer supported. Please see the new version at https://usc-imi.github.io/aeo-light/ Description for 1.1 continues below: AEO-Light 1.1 is an open-source software application that takes a digital scan of motion picture film with optical sound tracks and directly reproduces the audio, producing as a result a synchronized sound film file. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the University of South Carolina.

Radiorecorder Web GUI is a web interface to schedule record jobs for shoutcast-compatible streams with streamripper. It's use a webserver with PHP as backend, that provides a RESTful API. As frontend you only need a recent browser with JavaScript. Feature of web user interface: * adaptive user interface (resizable layout, sort entries, hide columns) * manage schedules (create, edit, copy, delete) * manage stations (create, edit, pre-listen¹, delete, reorder) * manage recorded files (rename, save, playback¹, delete) ¹) need HTML5 browser and depending on audio format

Drum Count is a simple tool which analyzes sound in real-time to measure the number of strokes played on a drumset.

AudioChain is a software for recording and mixing sound. It is primarily designed to simplify your home recording tasks, while it is not limited to that. This software helps you focus on creating your song, which should be a very musical and creative process. AudioChain aims to avoid bothering you to handle with a complicated graphical user interface. The AudioChain software is a convenient alternative to a hardware multitrack recorder. All you need is a computer with a good audio interface. This makes AudioChain an artistic tool for people, who simply want to rock and record!

BabyTwitter is a simple Java-Tool that recognized Sounds with a certain level. If that level is reached, a predefined Twitter-Message will be send via your Twiiter-Account.

This project´s goal is to add ASIO support to JavaSound. It is aimed for Windows and Macintosh systems and contains the C++ part for accessing the ASIO drivers as well as the Java part providing a MixerProvider PlugIn.

KStreamRipper (formaly KRadioRipper) is a program for recording Internet radios and other streams which comes with a stream catalog. Itt can split the stream and create an own file for each track - with corresponding metadata.

This Program plays any looping metronome file while it allows you to record. It will then take the recorded session and cut a loop to the same time length by synchronizing the loop points. Optionally it can mix the two files as well, (Java Required)