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Browse Audio Help and Tips

Copy music off your iPod
There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
Apple, Sonos, or Squeezebox: What's best for getting your audio all over your house?
We love Sonos' Digital Music System and Logitech's Squeezebox, but Dan Frakes and Jason Snell set out to determine if they could build a comparable system from AirPort Express units and other Apple gear. Their experiences can help you decide which is the best system for getting your music around your house.
Cleaning an iTunes library
Is your iTunes library full of duplicates, tracks from misnamed artists and albums, and albums lacking artwork? These tools can help.
Recording your song on an iPhone
As an amateur musician, I’m always looking for ways to get a song from my head into my computer. With Sonoma Wire Works FourTrack, it’s easy to compose an entire song, record the basic parts, and then export the audio to your Mac for further editing.
Eliminating a Word macro virus
Rare though they are these days, Word macro viruses are still around. Here are the steps for dealing with them.
Build your own photo booth
Liven up your parties and weddings with an easy DIY photo set-up that won't break the bank.
Syncing large music libraries
You have a large iTunes library and an iPod that can't hold it all? Here are tips for shoe-horning the best stuff on to your portable media player.
Ripping and burning CDs with iTunes
You remember CDs, right? Those silvery discs you played music from before you owned an iPod? Yeah, those. Here's a reminder of what iTunes can do with these discs.
The Button as last resort
When a device has given up the ghost, the press of a couple of key buttons could put things right.
Rip CDs better and faster
Find ripping CDs a slog? Kirk McElhearn offers some tips for more efficiently ripping your discs.
Calling all singers—let’s write a song
As part of his ongoing music album project, Jim Dalrymple is looking for a singer among Macworld.com readers to write a song with. Find out how you can participate.
Extracting audio from movies with iLife
iLife's iMovie and GarageBand can help you pull audio files from your movies.
Miking drums, amps, and recording to the Mac
Miking drums and amps to get the best recording signal to your Mac is a tedious but rewarding process.
Convert GarageBand tracks to electric guitar tracks
You have an old GarageBand project that includes software instrument guitar tracks that you'd like to use with GarageBand ’09's Electric Guitar tracks. Here's how to convert them.
Recording Studio: Get audio into your Mac
Need to record sounds on your computer? Christopher Breen shows you the hardware you'll need for the job.
Recording Studio: Podcasting guide
With some good hardware and a few tips, you can create your own high-quality podcasts to share with the world.
Audio recording dos and don’ts
Jim Dalrymple’s music recording project continues, as he shares some dos and don’ts he’s picked up over the last few months.
Excerpt: Choosing a microphone and other podcasting hardware
Want to try your hand at podcasting? You’ll need to pick out some necessary hardware first. In this excerpt from his Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac e-book, Andy Williams Affleck tells you what to consider when picking out a microphone, breakout box, or mixer for putting your podcasts together.
Record any sounds
Many fleeting sounds that play on your Mac are worth preserving. With the help of the right software, you can record and edit audio files and add them to iTunes for future use.
Recording Studio: Choose the right guitar
Because Jim Dalrymple records all of his music on the Mac, he tends to focus on software designed for that purpose. However, there are other important factors to consider from the outset—one of the most important is choosing the right guitar for the job.
How to update iTunes podcasts
Is iTunes missing episodes from a favorite podcast? Here's how to put things right.
Sound off in specific applications
Yes, you can adjust sound in specific applications, but you'll have to pay for the privilege.
Recording acoustic, electric guitar into your Mac
Jim Dalrymple’s album-recording project continues, as he experiments with finding the right acoustic and electric sounds and recording them on his Mac.
Setting up Pro Tools recording gear
Jim Dalrymple’s album-recording project continues, as he turns to the Digidesign 003 Factory audio interface, Pro Tools LE 7 audio software, and M-Audio Octane preamp for his recording needs.
Playlist: Digitize your cassettes and LPs
If your music collection stretches back several decades, odds are you have at least a few beloved analog titles on cassette or vinyl. They need not languish unloved and unheard simply because they’re in an old format.
Mac 911 - Feb. 2007
Christ Breen shows you how to manage iWeb pages from anywhere, keep an eye on kids’ computing, figure out whether .Mac or iLife is better for your pictures, and record conversations on Skype.