Tiny sound app...

[Josias]

Now listen carefully. Tomorrow I am doing an interview with a scientologist for a shcool project. I am bringing my MacBook to record the inerview. Though it may not be more than 1 hour, I want to be sure my MacBook will have enough juice to record the entire interview, and since Garageband steals a lot of battery, I want a small sound recording app, which must meet the following requirements:
1. Low battery consumption
2. Universal
3. Support for MacBook internal microphone
4. Export to iTunes
5. Possibility for recording long audio files (perhaps up to 2 hours).

 

[Compile 'em all]

You can use Quicktime to directly record from the internal mic, but I don't know how much does it tax the CPU.

 

[Josias]

No, you need QT Pro for that

 

[Compile 'em all]

Oops, you are right. Sorry about that. You can try Audacity then.

 

[j26]

Audacity works fine, but an hour will create a large wav file and you need to convert it afterwards to import into iTunes.

 

[Chundles]

Have you got Office:mac 2004?

 

[semaja2]

I would second audacity, very good sound app if you dont want advanced features

 

[Josias]

Have you got Office:mac 2004?

Yes, Student and Teacher edition.

BTW, I found one, Quickvoice, much better for my purpose than audick thingy

 

[Warbrain]

You could always try Audio Hijack.

 

[Josias]

You could always try Audio Hijack.

Nah, QT Pro is better

 

[Flowbee]

Yes, Student and Teacher edition.

You can record "Audio Notes" in Word 2004. Not sure if there's a time limit, but they advertise it as being able to record a college lecture. Works with internal mic.

 

[Josias]

You can record "Audio Notes" in Word 2004. Not sure if there's a time limit, but they advertise it as being able to record a college lecture. Works with internal mic.

Hmm, never mind. QT Pro really is worth the 30 bucks or whatnot, truly, so much cool stuff, no restrictons

 

[OHMS]

Record Conversation From Audio In

I wish to record my comments via a microphone to the audio in of an iMac. I've had several handheld audio storage devices; but how can I simply use the iMac (2 ghz Intel core Duo) to store snipets of voice; no musical quality ?
I've tried to search forums with "record audio in" and get huge complicated discussions. Isn't there a simple "record audio from audio in port" answer ?
mike

 

[Xeem]

Although it isn't universal, Wiretap Pro runs very smoothly under Rosetta on a Macbook and it should be great for your purposes.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/

 

[PkennethV]

sorry, a bit off subject here, but why is your battery compacity after 30 loadcycles less than 100? here's mine

did you not charge it for 10 hours the first time?
once again apologies for being off subject...

edit: never mind, i found out that the campacity of the 17" is 6500 not 5500