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ATLMacUser

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I have a digital voice recorder and would like to record contents onto my Mac. The digital voice recorder has a stereo jack which I'm guessing would plug up to the mic input on the mac but after that I'm a clueless...

thanks...
 
Audio Hijack Pro (shareware around $15-$20 American) can probably do it.

It can record Audio from applications, or just record system audio.


I use it to record system audio from youtube videos whenever I want a certain song.

So far I just got a few Live Nightwish songs, and a techno song created almost entirely from gun sound effects from Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warefare

Saves me the trouble of downloading it, then stripping the audio, and saving it. I simply record it, and import it into iTunes.
 
I have a digital voice recorder and would like to record contents onto my Mac. The digital voice recorder has a stereo jack which I'm guessing would plug up to the mic input on the mac but after that I'm a clueless...

thanks...

there's always garageband...
 
Hahaha I forgot about Garageband

Yeah, open it, and use that to record from your microphone line. It should work fine for anything connected to the line-in, or the built-in microphone if you have one. I used to use it with an external audio device that I could run audio signals through. I purchased Audio Hijack Pro because it did the same thing, but much more efficiently.

As for actually hooking up to the mic port and recording, it should work fine -- that's how people get voice onto podcasts (if it's not already there).
 
I DLed Audacity... is there a way to record to MP3 I think it defaults to WAV which are huge... this is just simple voice I'm doing.
 
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