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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

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

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!

Speech based User Interface Components Library for Java is a project to create Java controls and applications that can be used not only by literate people but also by non-literates. Speech and visual element with minimal text is used to create components

Provides interoperability between computer and Alesis HD24 harddisk recorder. Several OS platforms are supported. Only the program's source code is hosted on Sourceforge; To download the program, visit the HD24tools website.

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.

Clean implementation (in ANSI-C) of the Wavelets Transform. It works fairy good as a sparser, which can be combined with a compression algorithm (by using programs like bzip and gzip) to achieve high compression ratios (as good as mp3's).

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

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.

Performs actions on detected volume threshold Examples : - Launch music on clap - Launch speech recording when you start speaking - Launch guard webcam when a significant sound is detected - Increase or decrease headphones volume when ambient noise pass

CIOS Audio Core is the infrastructure and subsystem in Collective Intelligence Operation System. It is a cross platforms audio abstract interface, supports including Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iPhone OS and Windows 7.

A utility to assist in manipulating karaoke files

QAudioCoder is a Qt library for decoding and encoding raw audio samples. The library also provides functionality to directly decode or encode audio files and convert between different formats. Currently only WAVE, MP3 and FLAC formats are supported.

The Java based Shoutcast-Icecast Stream Grabber supports recording of up to 10 simultaneous streams. It enables you to record a complete song even when you notice in the middle of the song that you like it and supports track separation using meta data.

FreeWheeling is an audio tool for live looping. It provides a highly configurable, fluid user interface for instrumentalists to capture loops in real-time. FreeWheeling runs under Linux (PC/Mac) and Mac OS X (PPC/Intel).