One downside to this method is it is highly manual. If you’re exporting mp3, Audacity will let you add mp3 tags to each track at this point. This will ensure the recording doesn’t sound “quiet”.įinally, select the “File” menu and “Export Audio” or “Export Multiple” if you have more than one track to export. The default value of -1.0 decibel is fine. To maximize the recorded volume, press Control + A to select all of the recording, select the “effect” menu, and “normalize”. You can give each label a title, or add them on export later. To manually add labels, just navigate to the section of music where you want to add a label and press Control + B.

Make sure you add a label to the beginning of the music - sound activated recording usually means the first track is not preceded by silence. Press “OK” and Audacity will add a label at each point of silence in the music. Click the “Analyze” menu, and “Silence Finder”. A fast way to do this is using the silence analyzer. If the music contains more than one track, you’ll need to add labels at the start of each track. Once the music has finished, stop Audacity. You should see Audacity detect the music and begin recording. Switch to the webpage you wan to record from and start the music. Now click the record button, and Audacity should pause recording. Start Audacity, click the “Transport” menu, and select “Sound Activated Recording”. Navigate to the webpage which you want to record from, but don’t start the music yet. I’m a fedora user so I grabbed it with yum/ dnf, but users of other systems can use their package manager or get pre-built binary for Windows or OSX.ĭisable your microphone, you don’t want Audacity recording anything except the sound passing out of your speakers. Instead say hello to a solution that will work as long as music plays through your computer (so - forever). Say goodbye to the arms race of YouTube downloaders/decoders and HTTP network analysis to find the direct URL for the underlying MP3 (looking at you Bandcamp - still vulnerable at the time of writing). If you listen to music on YouTube, Soundcloud, Pandora - wherever, you can rip it and save it using Audacity. Instead I want to show you how to record music with the open source tool Audacity. Sorry Perlers, this post contains no Perl code.

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