The first audio recorder is capable to grab and download any audio stream on Mac, while QuickTime Player and Voice Memos can record audio on Mac with headphones and microphones only. Well, why not download and start the Vidmore Screen Recorder free trial? You can record audio on Mac for free up to 3 minutes to have a try within the program. OBS Studio is a free piece of software that is designed for broadcasting and recording livestreams. However, thanks to OBS’s flexible configuration and routing settings, it can be used to record audio on Mac and Windows from multiple sources simultaneously, including system audio, web browsers, and in-built and external microphones. Apowersoft Free Online Audio Recorder. Differing from Audacity or other free audio streaming recorder, Apowersoft Audio Recorder is a free online recording solution that needs no plug-in on Windows or Mac. It allows you record any sound from system sound card and microphone in high quality within 3 steps only. Aktiv MP3 Recorder (Windows) This is a fantastic tool for recording music for free from various.

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Screen Recorder is a powerful Screen Capturing & Audio Recording tool to record your screen & audio and capture any activity on Mac or Windows computer, such as recording screen activity, online movie, streaming music and gameplay, etc; but also helps you take high quality snapshots.

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Record Videos with High Quality

Screen Recorder allows you set recording area with full screen or customized screen size to record any high quality video on PC or Mac, you can capture any activity on the computer and save them in MP4, WMV, MOV, AVI, GIF, TS, etc. for easily playback and sharing.

Record Online Videos

Record iTunes M4V videos/movies and online videos such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Facebook, TED,etc. without any limitation.

Record Game Playing Processes

Record the whole game playing processes while you playing games and share some skills with friends.

Screencast Webcam Videos

Record and save your webcam videos on your computer, if you want to go over your Skype or TeamViewer chatting.

Record Online Activity

Record podcasts, online webinars, online lectures, presentations, online conference, etc.

Make Video Tutorials

You can easily making video tutorials by yourself. The Screen Recorder would catch the Screen and highlight your mouse cursor with customize size and color, making the recored video looks clearer and more professional.

Custom Window Recording

You can custom a lock window to keep capturing and recording the screen with excellent video and sound quality, so that the screen recording won't bother other operations.

Record Audio with High Quality

Screen Recorder not only can help you record videos, but also record various online streaming music, radio, audio call and more from system audio or microphone as need, you can save the recorded audio in MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A for playback on any devices.

Streaming Music Recording

You can record any streaming music like Apple Music, Spotify Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music,etc. instead of downloading them, easily to record any streaming audio with HD audio quality from the system audio.

Online Audio Capturing

You can record any online audio, including audio track in MV, dialogue in moive, voice in teaching videos, online songs and more.

Record Microphone Voice

When you are making a game playing tutorial or a speech tutorial, you can turn on the microphone audio and turn off the system audio to add oral explanation to your video presentation.

Take Snapshots Quickly

Except for recording videos and audios, you can also use Screen Recorder tool to take screenshot quickly when you want to save some important information during using computer. Screen Recorder tool allows you capture anything on your screen.

Edit Snapshots Freely

You can freely adjust the snapshot area and add your personal labels like rectangle, arrow, line and text to the output image.

Save Snapshots in Various Format

After taking snapshots, you can ave it as picture in PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and other picture format.

HD Screenshot

Not only record your computer screen and webcam at the same time with suitable recording area, but also take snapshot with HD quality.

Advanced Screen Recording and Snapshot Editing Functions

After recording video and taking snapshot on Windows/Mac computer, you can also use the Screen Recorder tool to edit recorded video and edit captured snapshot, making a more perfect works.

Recorded Video Editor

Adding rectangle, ellipse, arrow, text, line and more freely while the screen recording.

Captured Snapshot Editor

Add your personal labels like new arrow, line, text and more on snapshot.

More settings

Set more screen recording methods, hotkeys and other output settings that are suitable for you.

How to Record Video and Audio on Computer?

Step 1. Select 'Screen Recorder' or 'Audio Recorder'

Run the Screen Recorder software on PC or Mac,if you want to record video, please select 'Screen Recorder'; if you want to record online, streaming audio and microphone voice, please select 'Audio Recorder' from the interface.

Step 2A.Customize the Screen Recording Settings

For Video Recording: If you want to capture any activity on computer, please customize the video recording area, output format, codec, quality, and choose the source audio from system audio or microphone.

Step 2B. Choose the Source Audio from

For Audio Recording: If you want to record audio, please choose to record audio from system audio or microphone.

Step 3.Begin Record Video and Auido

After setting the output format, just clicking on the 'REC' button to start recording and capturing screen, after recording the screen, you can preview before saving it.

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Last week, we have reviewed the top 5 best streaming audio shareware. They work perfectly to record music online from most music apps or local media players as long as you paid a few dollars to buy a personal license. After posing the review, I have received multiple questions from users such as is there a way to get the streaming recorder for free.

Well, there are multiple such freewares available online. The problem is that some of them combine lots adwares or viruses. If you don't pay much attention before you download them for free, your computer will risk being infectious easily.

To help you all pick up a superior free MP3 music recorder, I have tested almost every streaming media software in the market and generate the following list. Want to take a look at it? Just read on.

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No 1. Aktiv MP3 Recorder (Windows)

This is a fantastic tool for recording music for free from various sources such as CDs, DVDs, Tapes, TV, Internet radio, video games as well as other sound files which are playing on your computer. It supports various output formats such as MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, VOX, AU and AIFF without using third party plugin like Lame encoder. Before converting, you can easily choose the bit rate, sample size, number of channels, frequency and volume of recording. Besides, it has the advanced features such as smart silence detection, schedule recording, system hot keys which makes it more user friendly and flexible to use.

Pros: 1. Easy to use. 2. Multiple output formats compatibility. 3. Advanced recording scheduler.

Cons: 1. The installer may contain some unwanted extra software, you can decline the offers during installing if you want them.

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No 2. QuickTime Player (Mac)

If you are an Apple Fan, this is the best free streaming media recorder for you. It comes with the Mac computers with 10.6 or later versions. Older Mac supports the built-in microphone and line-in from the 3.5mm jack while the new Mac only supports microphone. To start capturing songs, you just need to play them from your computer and click the 'File' > 'New Audio Recording' and choose the red 'Start' button. You can customize the quality settings for the output files too. If you want to balance the quality, file size and compatibility, you can choose 'High Quality' which records M4A files with variable bit rate using AAC codec. Else you can choose 'Maximum Quality' to export to AIFC files with PCM S24 codec. What is worth to mention is that this free tool also support to record screen video of your computer.

Pros: 1. It is readily available on Mac, no need to install. 2. Support to record music with maximum quality. 3. Support to record video as well.

Cons: 1. The microphone may record external sound noise around you during recording.

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No 3. Apowersoft Free Online Audio Recorder (Windows & Mac)

This free streaming music recorder works well on both Windows and Mac computer. It can directly and effectively record sound from your computer to MP3/OGG/WMA/WAV files. Weather you want to download songs from music websites like VEVO, Grooveshark, Jango or radio stations such as Pandora, BBC, VOA or voice chat on the Skype, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Apowersoft Free Audio Recorder will do that in a breeze. With the built-in ID3 system, it can automatically search and add the tag info, meta data to your songs after recording. Also, you can skip the silence passages in the process of recording, edit the recorded songs such as cutting out the unwanted parts. The converted songs will be compatible with almost any devices and players like Windows Media player, Chromebook, tablets and so on.

Pros: 1. Supports multiple output formats. 2. Automatically complete the ID3 tags for the saved songs. 3. Edit songs after capturing.

Cons: 1. Sometimes the recording sound is low. 2. Can't split tracks.

No 4. Free System Sound Recorder (Windows)

If you have Windows 7/8, this is a handy software to record voice playing online from your computer. You can use it for capturing the moment, recording presentations or just for fun. To use it, you can click 'Start' > 'All Programs' > 'Accessories' > Double click 'Sound Recorder'. You will see the tiny windows of with the main 'Start Recording' button. When it is done, you can click 'Stop Recording“ save it as .WMA Windows media files for playing on any players. It supports supports to do the recording from the command line too. On Windows 10, it doesn't come with this desktop program by default, but don't worry, you can download the app from the Microsoft Store online directly. What is even better is that with this free app, you can ask Cortana to do the song recording directly for you.

Pros: 1. Easy to use and lightweight. 2. Support to record through command line. 3. The Windows 10 Sound Recorder works well with Cortana.

Cons: 1. Don't have any extra features like editing.

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No 5. Audacity (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Audacity is a free open source streaming recorder which record sound from both a microphone and computer playback. It is beloved by users who do voice recording for podcasts and similar endeavors for years. You can use it to make your own recordings, remove noise, cut voice clips, apply special effects and so on. The user interface looks beautiful. But don't let its simple appearance fool you. Under it, there are a bundle of arsenal features such as multi-track editing, smooth fading, labeling, syncing and more. Audacity can change frequencies with its equalization, bass, treble, high/low pass. Besides, it can help you easily remove any annoying humming or other backgrounds. The only drawback is that as a most powerful audio software, it takes a longer time for you to learn all the features well. But it is totally worth it if you are planning to do free recording for a long period.

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Pros: 1. Support all kind of platforms. 2. Powerful sound editing features such as adding sound effects.

Cons: 1. It takes deep learning curve to use it.

Which Is the Best Free Audio Recorder

That is all about what are mainly want to talk today. Have you made a decision which free voice recorder works best for you? Actually there are still a lot other similar tools out there such as Streamosaur, Screamer Radio, iMusic, Wavosaur, The Kristal Audio Engine. But the ones we listed are better alternatives to them compared to the usability, features, performance and so on.

To sum up, if you don't want to install any extra packages to your computer, the QuickTime Player and Windows Sound Recorder will be best for you to use on Mac or PC. Else if you want more powerful free music recorder, you can try to download the Aktiv MP3 Recorder, Apowersoft Free Online Audio Recorder, Audacity.

By the way, though free tools can help you get the job done, it just doesn't have as high performance as other commercial software. If you are just seeking for more powerful tools, you can also refer to the top 5 streaming music converters which we have talked previously.