Though QuickTime Player is the built-in video and audio recorder for Apple Mac computers, you still need Vidmore Screen Recorder to record internal audio on Mac, as well as external audio from internal or external microphone, headphone and more. QuickTime Player cannot record audio from live streams and other online sources. If you want to download and record audio from browser on Mac, definitely Vidmore Screen Recorder is your first choice.

The Mac audio recording software is capable to record high-quality sound from microphone, sound card, voice chat, online streaming audio and more sources on Mac. There is no time limit, you can record sound playing on Mac for hours or even days. It is also supported to create a schedule to record audio clip on Mac with the premade start and stop time. Moreover, you can extract the certain recording clip within the built-in audio trimmer. Here’re the main features you can get.

Step 1: Free download, install and launch Vidmore Screen Recorder on Mac OS X 10.10 or above. Choose Audio Recorder and prepare to record audio on Mac OS X.

Step 2: Choose System Audio to record audio on Mac without microphone directly. You can also enable Microphone to record both the sound from Internet and microphone. It depends on your demand. Then adjust the input volume with the sliders below.

Step 3: Click Settings to adjust audio recording settings. In the Preferences window, switch to the Output section to set the output audio format and quality. You can change the location of audio recording, set hotkey controls and more within the Preferences window. Click OK to save changes.

Step 4: Click REC to start recording streaming audio on Mac from any site or media file. You can pause, resume and stop recording audio without time limit.

Step 5: You will be in the Preview window after recording automatically. Click Play to pre-listen the music. Moreover, you can trim the audio recording file with any start and end time within the window.

Step 6: If everything is okay, click Save to export and download your audio clip. In addition, you can share the recorded audio file to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more platforms in the Recording history window.

How to Record Microphone Audio on Mac with QuickTime: https://www.vidmore.com/record-audio/record-audio-on-mac/

I used QuickTime on Mac before. It however records both system audio and microphone by default, which causes inconvenience for me to independently capture audio from system itself. This is the reason why I apply a screen recorder from Joyoshare VidiKit as a good alternative. It ideally helps record sound from microphone or computer system. I can set output format and adjust parameters like code, sample rate, channel, etc. It's possible to trim my recorded audios and edit ID3 tags even.