Record internal audio natively?

[Silly John Fatty]

I'd like to record my screen with Quicktime, but you need third party software if you want to record your internal audio as well. I think this is ridiculous, I don't know what Apple was thinking.

Does anyone know if there's any way to record your internal audio natively?

It can be audio only. I can adjust both video and audio later. It's some hassle, but better than nothing.

Also, does anyone know if you can do this natively in Sonoma?

 

[Pakaku]

OBS for video+audio, Audio Hijack for audio

 

[HDFan]

snagit

for audio only select just a few pixels of the video

 

[Silly John Fatty]

OBS for video+audio, Audio Hijack for audio

snagit

for audio only select just a few pixels of the video

Thanks folks, that's not native though! I do not wish to install any third party apps.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Without third party, there isn't a way. Audio Hijack will do it. I think there's one or two others out there that can too: Screenflick and Blackhole (and possibly still an ancient one called Soundflower).

"What Apple was thinking" was likely contractual requirements with media companies to be able to stream/rent/sell their content in the iTunes Store, not wanting their audio tracks so easily pirated... as it could be if internal audio could be easily recorded with Quicktime.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Without third party, there isn't a way. Audio Hijack will do it. I think there's one or two others out there that can too: Screenflick and Blackhole (and possibly still an ancient one called Soundflower).

"What Apple was thinking" was likely contractual requirements with media companies to be able to stream/rent/sell their content in the iTunes Store, not wanting their audio tracks so easily pirated... as it could be if internal audio could be easily recorded with Quicktime.

I agree, but people can still easily pirate these things if they install these 3rd party apps. People who pirate don't mind the nasty and therefore don't mind installing 3rd party apps either.

Me, who doesn't want to install such apps, also won't pirate anything. Installing such an app is a matter of maybe two minutes.

And when I look at my iPad, I can easily record my screen and the internal audio with the in-built feature.

 

[ignatius345]

Audio Hijack is awesome and I've used it for years. Might be overkill for many uses, though, since it has all kinds of complex audio routing and filtering options. The same developers also have a simpler app called Piezo which will also capture/record system audio, and costs $25 instead of $65.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

With no intent to imply you- OP- want to pirate (just answering your question about why Apple doesn't build it in with my best guess), when piracy has costs, less people opt to pirate... or the easier it is to steal, the more likely people steal.

Nevertheless, if you want to record internal audio, you'll have to embrace a third party app. There's no secret macOS pure way to do it.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

With no intent to imply you- OP- want to pirate (just answering your question about why Apple doesn't build it in with my best guess), when piracy has costs, less people opt to pirate... or the easier it is to steal, the more likely people steal.

Yeah I know, you’re right.

Nevertheless, if you want to record internal audio, you'll have to embrace a third party app. There's no secret macOS pure way to do it.

That sucks. 🙁

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

If it's about software clutter, consider cloning you Mac to an external drive then boot with the external, and install third party apps on it to do things they can do. Do what you want to do with them. Then eject, reboot to internal drive, copy the new files you've created/captured and you'll have the resulting files you want without adding third party fluff to the main boot drive.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

If it's about software clutter, consider cloning you Mac to an external drive then boot with the external, and install third party apps on it to do things they can do. Do what you want to do with them. Then eject, reboot to internal drive, copy the new files you've created/captured and you'll have the resulting files you want without adding third party fluff to the main boot drive.

That’s too complicated to be honest, I try to be very minimalist in this regard.

But it’s not even really about clutter anyway, it’s more that I just don’t want any viruses or other dirty stuff on my computer.

I know these are well-known applications, but who knows what they do in the background. In the end you have to trust it. I don’t really install anything on my Mac except things like Logic Pro or Word or big, trustworthy apps like these.