Audio Tools for Mac

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MusicBrainz Picard is a music tagger for Mac that fixes the metadata in your audio files. It matches albums and tracks against the MusicBrainz database. AcoustID audio fingerprints identify songs even when the tags are missing or wrong. Picard then writes artist, album, track number, and cover art into the files. It also renames files and sorts the...

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TwistedWave is an audio editor for Mac that records, edits, and converts sound files. It works with WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis, among other formats. Speech recognition lets you select words in a transcript to select the matching audio. Silence detection splits long recordings into named parts. Batch processing applies effects and con...

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Spotify for Mac streams a massive catalog of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, all synced across every device you own. If you're wondering whether you can get Spotify on a Mac at all: yes, it's a full native desktop app, not just a browser tab, and it's free to start. Free accounts can now search for a specific song and play it directly instead of s...

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Audacity for Mac records and edits multi-track audio with unlimited undo, built-in effects, and detailed analysis tools, all for free. It covers the full loop from recording through cleanup to export: a compressor and limiter, noise reduction, pitch and speed changers, a spectrogram view, and a frequency-analysis window come built in, so most editi...

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SoundSource is a system and per-app audio control app for Mac from Rogue Amoeba, living entirely in the menu bar. It gives every running app its own independent volume, output device, and audio effects, instead of one shared system volume slider. Output Groups play audio to multiple devices at once, in sync, and AirPlay streaming can target a singl...

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Pine Player for Mac is a free music player built for listeners who care about audio quality rather than streaming playlists. It plays nearly every high resolution format you are likely to own, including FLAC, DSD, SACD ISO, APE, AAC, WAV, AIFF, and OGG, without needing a separate conversion step first. Bit Perfect playback sends your original audio...

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Piezo is a simple audio recording app for Mac from Rogue Amoeba. Pick a source, an app or a physical audio device, then click Record to capture it as a file. VoIP call recording works with dozens of specific apps, including Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, Teams, Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp, automatically splitting each caller onto a separate channel for ea...

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Loopback is a virtual audio routing app for Mac from Rogue Amoeba. It combines audio from applications and physical hardware devices into a single virtual device, usable as an input anywhere on the Mac. A wire-based interface makes routing visual, connecting each source to an output channel without any command-line tools. Pass-Thru devices route au...

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Farrago is a soundboard app for Mac from Rogue Amoeba. It turns a keyboard, mouse, MIDI controller, or Stream Deck into instant playback triggers for sound bites, effects, and music clips. Sounds organize into tiles, grouped into unlimited Sets by show, mood, or category, with Grid or List layouts depending on the job. A built-in editor trims audio...

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Noizio is a Mac menu-bar app that blends 40-plus ambient, nature, and brainwave-style sounds into custom mixes for focus, relaxation, or sleep. It plays entirely offline, runs in the background while other apps are in use, and includes a built-in Pomodoro Timer for structured work sessions. The library covers everything from Rain and Sea Waves to W...

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Audio Hijack is a Mac app from Rogue Amoeba that records audio from any application, device, or the entire system, including VoIP calls from Zoom and FaceTime. It builds a session out of modular blocks, chaining an audio source through effects like EQ, compression, or noise removal before saving the result or sending it out live. Beyond straightfor...

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GarageBand for Mac is a complete music creation studio that costs nothing and needs no separate instruments to get started. Drummer, a virtual session player, can lay down realistic beats across genres like EDM, Hip Hop, Rock, and Alternative, choosing from 33 drummers, percussionists, and beat producers. Every instrument in the Sound Library comes...

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rekordbox for Mac is Pioneer DJ's professional DJ software for music management, live performances, and creative mixing. It lets you organize tracks, prepare playlists, analyze BPM and waveforms, and perform using compatible AlphaTheta (Pioneer DJ) controllers, CDJs, and mixers. With Performance Mode, Cloud Library Sync, Beatport Streaming, and App...

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DJMixerPro for Mac is professional DJ software designed for live mixing, music playback, and playlist management on macOS. It includes real-time audio effects, automatic beat matching, MIDI controller support, looping, cue points, and high-quality audio playback. Whether you're mixing tracks at parties, clubs, events, or practicing at home, DJMixer...

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