Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2010

Tapedeck: <http://tapedeckapp.com/>.  It's a Mac app that works more or
less like an old-fashioned tape recorder, and which keeps track of all
the virtual tapes you make with it.

I don't know what managing "in a serious way" means so I'm not sure how
to relate that to an app.  Tapedeck does what you describe, though.

Hm, I'm not sure whether DEVONThink will do this.. I was thinking of
something like the old note audio recorder from OS 9.x and the very
first OS X versions - simple, fast, with just a REC, Stop and Save As
button and I then remembered there are a few of these apps around, but
if you're running SnowLeoaprd I don't know if they will work or not...

VoiceNotes 1.0 (commercial, maybe all too old)
widget to record, store, playback audio notes
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27102
RecordPad 2.11 (freeware)
Sound recording app. Record notes, voice and other audio.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33502
REC 2.1.3 (shareware)
Simple app for audio recording.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32028
Sound Studio 3.6 (shareware, maybe a bit overkill)
Scriptable audio recording & editing software.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10003
Audiocorder 5.3.3 (shareware)
Records audio manually & automatically.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10417

I've only tried RecordPad, SoundStudio and Audiocorder myself.
Audiocorder is the easiest to use in my opinion, but yet rather enhanced.

Of course Amadeus is the best - both for voice recordings but also for
common audio recording. Amadeua is also AppleScript savvy, so maybe you
could write an 'auto-save' script that auto saves each noice-note with a
sequential running number - e.g. yyyy/mm/dd-hh/mm/ss-000x
(year/month/date-hour/min/sec) - the 'x' is the note number and will
grow for each new note as well as the date will change subsequently.

With my keyboard - a Microsoft enhanced multi-media keyboard - I can
just press one of the 21 extra keys assigned to Amadeus Pro, and it
launches fast and then it's just to press COM+R and click the REC
button. I know it's a bit more difficult on an Apple keyboard or on a
laptop, but you can add a command to the keyboard commands in the prefs
pane 'Keyboard&Mice' -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Other Applications. - If I
remember right, keyboard and mice are split in OS X 10.6.x? - So if
you're running 10.6.x you have to open the keyboard prefs pane and add
the commands there instead...

...And of course - don't forget to select the microphone as input
source.:-))