WireTap

I miss NPR, especially This American Life, quite a lot and I can enjoy listening to them via the web in realaudio format but the net gets chunky fairly often these days and I want a local copy to listen to when I wish. I bought a copy of David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries from Audible.com about a year ago and the only problem I have with it is that I have to give it my audible login information every time I want to listen to it which I didn't understand would be part of the deal at the outset. So, I figured I'd order a hard copy of it directly from NPR and it's almost comical to admit that they sent me a casette tape instead of a CD as I had expected. I don't even own a cheap-o walkman. *sigh*

I've been waiting for Griffin Technologies to hurry up and ship the Radioshark, a Tivo-like gadget for radio and system sound, so I could record it myself but I broke down and gave WireTap a try since I love Ambrosia's software and, best of all, it's free. It's a terrific no-frills audio recording application that will record any sound on your Mac and save it to .aiff format which can then be used in Quicktime or iTunes and converted to other formats. Thanks Ambrosia! :)

19 Nov 2003 at 22:49, Helsinki