Announcing TapeDeck 1.0

From our press release:

“TapeDeck is a new audio recorder exclusively for Mac OS X 10.5, designed with a quick-capture workflow in mind. You're never more than a single mouse click (or keystroke) away from making a new recording, which are called, unsurprisingly, “tapes.” TapeDeck records directly to compressed MP4-AAC audio, making it equally useful for quick high-fidelity samples or hours and hours of lecture.”

I worked on TapeDeck for the past 6 months with Daniel Sandler, a friend I once worked with at Be, Inc back in '99/'00 (well, our tenures overlapped—I was an intern on the networking team and he was a full-time UX designer/coder. We've kept in touch ever since, and Dan's even provided a lot of feedback for FuzzMeasure over the years.

Late last year we agreed this application needed to be written—a very simple, useful audio recorder that leverages Core Animation for the Zing! and Pop! you expect from Leopard apps today.

I am very proud of the things I was able to pull off in this application, and plan to write some blog posts about the long (well, it felt long) road to TapeDeck 1.0. After this endeavor I have learned an incredible amount about Core Animation, Core Audio, and became very intimate with the internal details of M4A files.

So, check out TapeDeck and let us know what you think! I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed writing it!