Recording music on my Mac

[BLDun]

Anyone have any suggestions for the best program to record music into my mac. I want to take music from some old cassettes I have and record them into the mac and then transfer them to CD's. I have the tape player hooked up thru a receiver/amp but need a good program to make the input as easy as possible. I have used audiocorder in the past but it doesn't seem to work too well any more. Thanks for your help!

 

[atmenterprises]

Garageband works fine for me when I'm taking audio from a minidisc player into my Mac.

 

[MrSmith]

I used CD Spin Doctor that came with Toast to digitalize my old cassettes. It just needed a lead from my stereo's headphone socket to my iMac's input socket. No amp. And very easy to use.

 

[calculus]

I used CD Spin Doctor that came with Toast to digitalize my old cassettes. It just needed a lead from my stereo's headphone socket to my iMac's input socket. No amp. And very easy to use.

I use this for vinyl and for tapes. Works very well for both.

 

[MrSmith]

I use this for vinyl

Which reminds me - it's very easy to cut out hiss with Spin Doctor.

 

[EMAGDNIM]

I use Audacity. I use it to record my DJ sets, and its never failed me once so far (I've been using it for about a year)...

 

[BLDun]

I have Toast version 6.0.5 and I can't seem to find Spin Doctor. Is it part of Toast or an add on???

 

[MrSmith]

I have Toast version 6.0.5 and I can't seem to find Spin Doctor. Is it part of Toast or an add on???

It should be in Applications > Toast > Additional Software. Possibly when you install Toast it asks if you want the other stuff? I can't remember. I have Toast 7 Titanium and that's where it is on my machine. Presumably you've done a Spotlight search, so I'd check the install disk.

 

[quigleybc]

Anyone have any suggestions for the best program to record music into my mac. I want to take music from some old cassettes I have and record them into the mac and then transfer them to CD's. I have the tape player hooked up thru a receiver/amp but need a good program to make the input as easy as possible. I have used audiocorder in the past but it doesn't seem to work too well any more. Thanks for your help!

On a long shot, I typed in "audio recorder os x" into google and found this.

doesnt' get much easier than that.