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Recordia — Simple audio recorder that lives in your macOS menu bar
Recordia lets you record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut. This can be useful for recording voice memos, meetings, lectures, interviews, phone calls, voice-overs, and more.
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Love this tool! A particularly useful alternative to recording audio with Quicktime Player. I run a podcast production agency and we're always looking to simplify the process of recording "double enders" for our clients - so I can see how this Recordia will come in handy. (see this video to see what I'm referring to: https://youtu.be/-3YDNu_ICRM?t=342)
Very cool. Can it capture system audio like WavTap could? https://github.com/pje/WavTap
@itsbrex Not directly, as that's not possible for apps in the App Store, but you can achieve it by installing a helper app.
Congrats on the launch @sindresorhus ! 🥳..
I would gladly pay for a one time fee on your product if it had an option to automatically upload the audio files to something like Google Drive and provide me with an unlisted, shareable link to be pasted it on communication systems like Slack o Basecamp.
All the best.
@aojedal I unfortunately don't intend to do this. There are lots of existing apps for sharing audio and files. If I were to do this, I would have support both Google Drive, Dropbox, and more, or do my own cloud hosting (which is super hard).
However, you can achieve want. Just let Recordia reveal the recording in Finder when done, right-click the file, and then select "Share using Google Drive". More info.
I'll try to think of ways to make it easier to share a recording though. Maybe I could show the last recording in the menu with a share sub-menu containing share services.
@sindresorhus fair enough!. An easier option to share from the sub-menu sounds like a great step forward. All the best.
@sindresorhus Simple and useful as always. Thanks for this new app (and all the others) 😉
Thank you, Sindre! This is very useful!
By the way, I was looking a few weeks ago for a simple proxy app for Mac that also lives in the menu bar. Something to quickly change the current proxy, see which one is used, etc. Do you know something that is close to this?
@julien_le_coupanec I'm not aware of any Mac app for this, unfortunately. But if you use Alfred, I found this: https://github.com/lululau/proxy...
Hey @sindresorhus this is very helpful! I would like to help you with a Spanish translation for the app strings. How can we get in touch? Cheers!
@rodrigo_navarrete I don't have any immediate plans to localize the app, but thanks for offering.
@sindresorhus I currently use Backtrack for a similar solution - it has two main issues for me and I would definitely be happy to pay a single time fee if you beat them to the solution:
1) External headphones are super painful. Let's say we are just talking about airpods pro/not it doesn't matter. Opening Backtrack when airpods are connected switches the earphones into 1channel mode and any music just begins to sound horrible. I haven't tested recordia yet, but I would imagine you might face a similar issue.
2) Now, this is a big one, but I occasionally want to record system audio whilst sitting in a meeting/listening to music in my earphones. I have tried to use Blackhole/Soundflower & LadioCast - I managed to get things working to record both my microphone and system audio with Backtrack. It's however just annoying to always switch over manually from Speakers to headphones within the LadioCast app and decide how to route the sound. IMO, sound should always be routed through headphones if they are connected if they are not it should switch back to computer mic + speakers and record system audio from that if that option is selected.
One thought about this - is that you could ship your own helper extension similar to how amphetamine does it that would let you escape the app store sandboxing?
Would appreciate you looking into those issues!
Regards
@pashashocky I understand your frustration with audio and device handling on macOS. But many of your complaints here are simply out of the hands of third-party app devs. This is something Apple needs to fix.
1. This might be helpful: https://apple.stackexchange.com/...
2. Recording system audio correctly is really complicated. There's just no way I'm going to open that can of worms. I would recommend opening issues on Blackhole if you see anything there that could be made simpler/better.
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