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 Studio, 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.

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.

FlashWavRecorder is a Flash-based tool that enables recording audio from a user's microphone and exporting it as a WAV file in real time. It uses Flash Player to access audio input and communicate with JavaScript to control recording sessions from the browser. This was especially useful before native browser audio APIs became widely supported and remains relevant in legacy systems requiring Flash-based audio capture.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

========================= 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.

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.

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.

The SpatGRIS is a plugin (Mac AU/VST and VST Windows format) designed to compose multichannel space. It allows the user to spatialize the sound in 2D (up to 16 speakers) or in 3D (up to 128 speakers) under a dome of speakers (with the ServerGRIS, available here on SourceForge). SpatGRIS is a fusion of two former plugins by the GRIS: OctoGRIS and ZirkOSC with a lot of new features. SpatGRIS has been developed by the Groupe de Recherche en Immersion Spatiale (GRIS) directed by Robert Normandeau and based at the Faculty of Music at Université de Montréal. SpatGRIS and ServerGRIS are still available here but they are not supported anymore. They have been replaced by the duo ControlGRIS/SpatGRIS3 also available at SourceFORGE (August 2021) Have a look at the them: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spatgris3/

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

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!

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.

A GUI (interface) for mp3splt and mp3wrap written in Java. The open source alternative to AlbumWrapper. Compatible with AlbumWrapper only for splitting

With JToothpaste you can easily download videos from youtube. It downloads the flv Flash Movie and extracts audio to mp3 and video to avi. Webversion is available on http://dasbecks.jucktmich.net.

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)

ManyEars implements real-time microphone array processing to perform sound source localisation, tracking and separation. It was designed for mobile robot audition in dynamic environments. NOTE: Development will continue on github : https://github.com/introlab/manyears

A suite of professional real-time audio editing tools

NoMule is a program which lets you to download videos from online video communities like youtube, google video, dailymotion, myvideo or some porn sites like youporn and convert them into any format you want like mp3.It also has a commandline interface.