I teach adult literacy. I want to record myself reading simple passages and burn this to cd for the students so they can listen and read along. I did this once on my old pc but I can't figure out how to do it on Mac. Can anybody help me with this?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Simplest way to make a basic recording is to use QuickTime Player. Open the 'File' menu and select 'New Audio Recording'. Once recorded you can trim silences from the beginning and end. If you need more advanced editing facilities consider Audacity, it's a free download. Once you have your recordings import them into iTunes and create a playlist consisting of all the audio files you want to burn to CD, then right-click the playlist and select 'Burn Playlist to Disk'.
Thanks! Can you tell me what kind of recordable CD to get? I think when I did this before I just stumbled on a type that worked, but I don't really know the difference between CD-R, CD- RW etc.
CD-R stands for CD-recordable - these are write once, having been created they are like a purchased CD, i.e. they cannot be written to again; CD-RW stands for CD-rewriteable - which means they can be erased and rewritten similar to the old cassette tapes (if you go back that far!). Many audio CD players struggle with CD-RW so the safest bet is to go for CD-R for your purpose.
Oh, I go back to reel-to-reel. I remember when cassette players were new! I just found out that to record with quicktime you have to get quicktime pro which costs 30 bucks! I'm trying to make up my mind to spring for it. The literacy agency pays me, but not much, and I try to break even on teaching!
Incorrect! You can make simple recordings with the Quicktime Player that came with your Mac. As stated above 'File' -> 'New Audio Recording'. Reel-to-reel, wow, that takes me back too!
Or as stated earlier get Audacity. It's a fully featured audio recording application and it's free from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
great, but how do you do it? When I go to quicktime it shows "new audio recording" in gray and tells me I need to get the pay version to use it! Audacity looks like overkill, but maybe it's the way to go.
Do you have Garage Band as part of the iLife suite? In my version, you can record your voice, and then choose Share and burn it to a CD.
Weird!!! It just works on mine, but I notice you're using Leopard OS X 10.5. Maybe an upgrade to Snow Leopard or even Lion would do the trick. I never used Leopard, I started on Macs with SL and I've never been prompted upgrade QuickTime.
Audacity is free and not as intimidating as it may appear. Basic use is pretty straightforward.
Zyriab may be on the right track. I have Snow Leopard and and it is available on my MBP. Given a choice, I would spend $29 on Snow Leopard than a Quicktime upgrade (which I suspect comes with Snow Leopard). My Quicktime version is 10.0 (131)
Just for the record, my QT ver is 10.1 (501.8). It would be interesting to see what ver OP has. Maybe audio recording was only introduced in more recent versions, but in that case I find it odd that OP has the option in his menu but greyed out!!!???
I don't know if Quicktime 7 has this feature. If it does, it is a free download from Apple and would solve kjgpinelake's problem without any expenditure. There was a time when I had both versions (because a third party app required 7) but I had to keep the in separate folders due to the OS prohibiting an older version being put into the applications folder with 10 in there. But that is just a nit.
Ciao.
Thanks. I have qt 7.7--came with the computer Which is the other version you are talking about?
Maybe that earlier version doesn't offer recording then. Go the Audacity route - it's good software, I only suggested Quicktime cos it's simple to use and your needs are basic.
record voice and burn to cd
