I wish you could adjust the forward-skimming speed, though, as it’s too fast for you to be able to understand most speech.

A nice touch is that, just like its real-world counterpart, TapeDeck lets you skim through your recording (i.e., listen to the sped-up audio) by using the Rewind and Fast Forward buttons during playback.

You can listen to the currently loaded tape using the playback buttons. During playback, a scrub control lets you quickly move around within a recording. The HQ setting records to Apple Lossless files at 44.100Hz MQ gives you 128kbps (stereo) or 64kbps (mono), 16-bit AAC files at 44.100Hz and LQ records to 48kbps (stereo) or 24kbps (mono), 16-bit AAC files at 22.050Hz. You can view the recording time and the recording and volume levels, and buttons let you choose between stereo or mono recordings, as well as to set the recording quality: high (HQ), medium (MQ), or low (LQ). Just above the record and playback buttons are a few useful controls and displays.

Unfortunately, you can’t record audio that’s playing in other apps on your Mac. TapeDeck can pass audio through to your Mac’s audio output, letting you monitor your recordings in real time. You choose the desired input using TapeDeck’s Preferences window, which also lets you choose which channel(s) to record, if applicable. TapeDeck can record audio from your Mac’s built-in microphone or any Mac-compatible microphone or audio device connected via USB, Bluetooth, or your Mac’s audio input(s).

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