Turn Your Mac Into a Simple Voice Recorder
Mac: Sometimes an app doesn’t need to do a lot to be incredibly useful. This is why I love Simple Recorder . As the name suggests, it lets you turn your Mac into a miniature sound recording machine, whether you want to pick up the noise coming from your speakers or the sounds of where you use your laptop (or desktop, I suppose).
The app, completely free for basic use, can be found in the Mac App Store. Install it and you get a tiny icon in the menu bar (and, as always, a larger icon in the dock). Tap the first one, then choose Record to do just that – record whatever sound your Mac’s microphone can hear. Click the large icon in the Dock to start recording with one click, which is a bit like the reverse implementation, but useful nonetheless.
In the free version of Simple Recorder, you can choose which audio device you want the application to record (in the Settings section, which you will see when you click on its icon in the menu bar). You can also choose whether you want the utility to create an M4A or MP3 recording of what it heard, as well as the sample rate and channel (mono or stereo).
And it’s all. In short, Simple Recorder is very simple. And while you can basically mimic its functionality in Quicktime, if you really don’t want to install an additional application, it takes a few extra clicks to get started. With Simple Recorder, you just click the big dock icon and you’re done.
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