![]() ![]() It transcribes all your material and you can edit the audio directly from the transcript and in collaboration with others. We’ve been doing the bulk of our editing in Descript since we were piloting in January 2020. ![]() What if instead of hunting for the right clip, you could throw everything into an audio editor – just an absurd quantity of material – and then keyword search it? Since July, a completely different way to source archive has become possible. This could be for a recording session, whether live or for a podcast to grab a broadcast Internet radio session to time-shift or for recording the outputs of DVDs, webinars, other real-time events, or digital-rights managed media. Ordinarily hunting for it wouldn’t be an efficient use of time on a daily program: you could spend half an hour finding just the right 15 seconds. You can turn to Audio Hijack any time you need to capture audio. And that’s the most difficult material to get, especially in a hurry. Sometimes YouTube videos have transcripts you can search, which is handy.īut some of the most interesting ways to use archive are to spot patterns listeners may have missed, context they may have forgotten about, and depth beyond the handful of clips they’ve already seen on TV news and on Twitter. You can get by on searching YouTube, noting down the time and date when you hear something grabby on the news, or using Twitter bookmarks to keep track of viral videos. Take for example health secretary Matt Hancock’s haunting delivery of “Happy Christmas”. There are also moments when you just need to hear the delivery of a particular line. Often it’s to give a sense of “everyone’s talking about this,” the buzz of news coverage, or to take us back to a point in time. The archive in my stories is usually doing one of several jobs. (Feel free to skip this bit if you’re just interested in the tech.) There are a few podcasts like ours, and one of the things that distinguishes the really good ones from the rest is excellent use of archive. This happens almost every time I move any slider. It was originally published on his blog and is republished here with permission. The only thing in the workspace this is recorded from is a 10 min tone. Here’s hoping you don’t have a need for it. This post was written by James Shield, senior producer for Stories of Our Times, a daily news podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times of London. I dropped it in the Scripts folder at ~/Library/Scripts so it’s always available. For v3.2 and older, focus on the popup button, move your mouse to it with vo-cmd-f5, and hold the option key down as you physically click your mouse. Open the Universal Access preference pane, and click “Enable access for assistive devices.” tell application "System Preferences" In Audio Hijack 3.2.1 or newer, simply press option-space or shift-space on this popup button to reveal the same expanded list without having to option-click. ![]() Note: it requires System Events, which is not enabled by default. This script sets the balance back to centered. Often when waking from sleep, the audio balance is all the way to one side. While I’m on the subject of audio, here’s a little AppleScript that fixes an annoying problem I have with my PowerBook G4. The solution was to create a playlist file in VLC and have Audio Hijack Pro open the playlist file via VLC. VLC got the URL fine, but it wouldn’t start playing unless you clicked the play button. ![]() The only problem was that VLC wouldn’t start playing automatically when called from Audio Hijack Pro. I thought I would try using VLC and see if it handles streams better. That cast suspicion on the apps I use to capture streams: QuickTime Player and iTunes (I need both so I can record two shows at once). All’s well in radio land except that the files occasionally “skip.” At first I thought Audio Hijack was having a problem buffering until I noticed it happening to the stream itself. As I’ve mentioned I've been using Audio Hijack Pro to time-shift radio shows. ![]()
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