Piezo
By Rogue Amoeba Software
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Description
Piezo makes it a snap to record audio on your Mac. With just a few clicks, you can record audio from any application, or from audio input devices like microphones. Piezo's great for recording from VoIP applications like Skype and iChat as well. Save conversations or interviews for podcasts.
Piezo requires almost no configuration, and it's a blast to use!
What's New in Version 1.1.5
A bug where high CPU usage could cause problems with Piezo and Mac OS X has been fixed.
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Customer Reviews
You Get What You Pay For
The developer, Rogue Amoeba, is darn smart. They made a downgraded version of their wonderful Audio Hijack Pro and are selling it for 1/3 the price and calling it Piezo. For most people, this App will be all that you need. However, the output from Piezo is limited to MP3 or AAC with sampling rates of 128k or 256k. There is no AIFF (lossless) output nor higher lossy (MP3 or AAC) option. So for those of us that would like to edit the output, this means going from a lossy (MP3 or AAC) back to a lossy again, with some signal quality loss. There is also no input volume adjustment.
However, this App does a wonderful job of grabbing an output from a single program and no other noise your Mac may make will be recorded. So if you are satisfied with the limitations, this is the App to grab.
Unfortunately, for me, this does not cut it, so I wasted my $. This is my first purchase though the App Store and likely my last. Next time, I will go directly to the developer website where they may have a trail version (Rogue Amoeba does) and skip the App Store.
I love the simplicity
Nicely done app. I love how easily I can record skype calls. I only wish it mixed calls to mono, rather than separating the two callers into left and right channels. Or at least provided an option to do so.
Really great little app. I have a key tip, for folks, though.
This app works great. It's really easy to use and well thought out. Except for one thing I wish it could do. You cannot adjust the recording volume from within the APP as far as I can see. To do this, you have to record it at a higher level to be begin with when you record. Thoughts on how to handle that below. But overall, this is a GREAT app. Easy to use and it just works.
I was trying this out recording a song from a music video I have in iTunes. At first, I was a little frustrated that the recordings I got in first attempts were about 30% of the volume of the other songs I have in iTunes. I could not adjust the individual track enough to fix this (right click on the file in iTunes, Info, options, use the slider).
So, to get adequate volume to match commercially purchased music in iTunes, you may need to record from the source at a higher volume to begin with. To do this:
1. use the needles in the app; you want to get levels high in the wite range but not in the red zones.
2. use the volume control IN THE APP you are recording from. For example, use the slider within iTunes when recording from iTunes to get the needles at a good level.
3. the volume control on the computer itself will NOT affect the volume you are recording at. That's really good, btw, as you can adjust the volume while recording to suit your own taste while listening as you record. But it's the volume level in the APP that matters for the volume of the track you record before you fiddler with it any further such as above with the info/options in iTunes.
- $9.99
- Category: Music
- Updated: Mar 29, 2012
- Version: 1.1.5
- Size: 2.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC
- © Rogue Amoeba
Requirements: OS X 10.6.0 or later
