
Note that when you place a label, it will add a second track in the window, and the label's track will be selected when you create labels using the "create new label at cursor" keyboard shortcut Command + Period(.). If you're listening to a really long audio track, and want to skip through it, you can use your cursor to move around the track's wave form, or you can move forward 15 seconds using Shift + Period (.), and move backward 15 seconds using Shift + Command (,) The cursor is immediately in the text box for the label's name. Play the audio track, and while you're listening, use Command + Period (.) to place labels. It involves first listening to the track and labeling it at various points, then splitting the audio track at each label. What follows below is my workflow for splitting audio tracks into segments. DO NOT change the system volume, since that will change the volume level of the audio you are recording. That will change the volume level of the monitoring output. To adjust the playback volume, use the speaker volume level in the toolbar (just under the record button). Changing the system volume changes the volume of the audio in the recording! Set the system volume before you start recording. You should be able to monitor the output you will be recording, BEFORE you hit record. Click on it to start monitoring (which will pass Soundflower input, being recorded, through to the output, the speakers) In the top right, there will be a microphone and a speaker monitor/meter.In the toolbar, pick the drop-down next to the speaker and pick "Built-in Output" - this will use the speakers to pass the audio through.In the toolbar, pick the drop-down next to the microphone and pick "Soundflower (2ch)" - this will set Audacity to record from the soundflower audio device.Open/prepare the source of audio you want to record.Open System Preferences > Sound > Output.
#Audacity soundflower install#
Install Soundflower (software audio output device that allows multiplexing).If you want to record audio while also listening to it (e.g., through speakers), here's how you can do that with Audacity on the Mac:
