![]() You can capture/record desktop audio or any audio from your Mac to share it on Twitch or video recording of your choice, but first I will show you how you can also add your webcam to your presentation since we are answering the first question of How To Use QuickTime Player to record your Mac screen. If you want to record, not just your voice, but something like a YouTube video that you have on Safari or a local file with audio than you won’t be able to with just default QuickTime Player, because it won’t capture desktop audio or anything besides the microphone you have selected. Now you’ve got three different ways to capture all that Beats 1 goodness.Let’s answer the foundational question of “how to use QuickTime player” if you want to go ahead and record your Mac screen with a microphone and don’t need to record or capture any other audio at the same time then go ahead and turn on your Mac and log in, then press at the same time Control + Command + 5 and you will see the QuickTime Player Mini Menu that allows you to screenshot your display or record it plus select where to save the video file and which microphone to record your voice from. ![]() Unfortunately, there’s no way to schedule this it’s also a completely manual affair. It’s pretty simple, free, and will work without any software besides what your Mac already has. Basically, you connect an audio cable from the headphones jack on your iPhone to your audio in port on your Mac, set Quicktime to record from that source, and record. The fine folks over at 9to5Mac have a great guide up on recording Beats 1 from your iPhone. Record from your iPhone to your Mac Beats 1 Radio is live on Apple Music, but is it worth your time? Photo: Apple That’s a ton of extra work, personally I’d much rather spend the $40 of $50 and just use an app as above. If you want to get really fancy, you can set up some sort of Automator script to launch Quicktime, capture the audio, and then attach it to Calendar events for the times and dates you want to record. You’ll get a new Untitled audio file that you can then name and save to your Mac. Simply record until you’re done, then hit the red button again. You’ll know the sound is being recorded as you’ll see two white audio bars above the recording button. When you want to start recording, hit the red record button on the audio recording window of QuickTime player. Click on the little down arrow next to the red recording button and choose Soundflower 2ch.įinally, start iTunes and play Beats 1 radio. Next, launch QuickTime and choose New Audio Recording from the File menu. Choose Soundflower (2Ch) for your input and output sections. Then, launch System Preferences and click on the Sound icon. This will allow you to monitor what you’re recording. Once it’s installed, click on the menubar Soundflower icon and choose Built-in Output in the Soundflower (2Ch) section of the menu. ![]() It will appear in your menubar as a little flower. You can use QuickTime player, GarageBand, or any other audio software to record, as Soundflower is just a routing system.ĭownload and install Soundflower and then launch the companion Soundflower Bed app on your Mac. Soundflower is a fantastic little app that runs in your menubar and lets you route any audio from your Mac to any recording software. This is how I’ve been recording my Mac’s audio for years. Record from your Mac to your Mac Route your audio with Soundflower. If easy is your goal and scheduling your holy grail, this is probably the best option. Scheduling recordings is equally easy in each app you enter the start and end times of when you want it to record, the sound source you want to record from (system sound), and then leave the app (and your Mac) up and running while you go about your day. You can download a free trial of either app, but they only give you a few minutes of recording before they’ll ask you to cough up the dough. With these apps, all you do is install the app, set your audio source to System Audio, and then record Beats 1 audio playing through iTunes. The venerable Audio Hijack runs $50, though, while Streaming Audio Recorder will cost you $40 and supposedly will pull ID3 tags for your recorded tunes. ![]() Both applications allow you to schedule your recordings ahead of time, instead of having to start your recording manually, and are relatively simple to use. There are two apps that will run on your Mac that I know of: Audio Hijack 3, and Streaming Audio Recorder. ![]() Using an app on your Mac makes everything a lot easier. There are three ways to get that to happen. Basically, you want to route the Beats 1 audio from iTunes through something that will record it. ![]()
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