I’ve been wanting to capture audio in Mac OS X – more specifically audio streams, and even more specifically RealAudio streams. I prefer to consume spoken word with the iPod while doing dishes or laundry, so any interesting things I find that are RA streams just pile up, and I never get around to listening to them.
The other week I went looking for tools to capture audio, and the only thing I found was Audio Hijack, which indeed is a good piece of software, but I feel it has too many features that I wouldn’t use and wouldn’t want to pay for.
Yesterday I read this post by Mark Bernstein, where he mentions WireTap, a free tool that simply captures all audio played to an AIFF. It has far from all the features of Audio Hijack, but it suits my purposes perfectly.