Recording internal sound (Mac) - possible?

[Terry Judd]

A quick update on thatŠ

If I go back to LC 6.6.5 then I can record to file using Soundflower or
Sound Siphon as the input source without LC throwing an error but the file
contains no sound :(

Terry...

On 12/05/2016 3:29 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

>I want to use revSpeak and 'record sound file' in combination with a
>series of text templates to create some personalised audio files. It
>works but the default is that it captures audio from the built-in
>microphone via the computers speakers, which obviously has pretty
>horrible sound quality.
>
>I¹m guessing that I can work around this by plugging a stereo mini plug
>cable from the headphone port to the microphone port (hang on, my Macbook
>Air doesn¹t have a microphone port so I¹ll need a usb adapter as well
>there) and then fiddling around with the sound input in the sound panel ­
>but it would be easier/better if I could just capture my Mac's internal
>audio directly. There are a couple of system extension thingys that seem
>to support this (Soundflower or Sound Siphon) but unfortunately if I
>install these and select them in the sound input panel then Œrecord sound
>file¹ throws an error, like this - Œerror 0 starting recording¹ and no
>file is created.
>
>Has anyone dealt with something like this before, and if so is there any
>way to make it work other than via the cable route?
>
>I¹m using LC 8 BTW.
>
>TerryŠ
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