Golden Records
Golden Records is an audio digitisation and conversion utility developed by NCH Software that specialises in transferring vinyl records and cassette tapes to digital format on your Mac. It captures audio from turntables and tape decks connected via your computer's audio input, then encodes the recording as MP3, WAV, FLAC, or other common formats. The app includes tools to automatically split long recordings into individual tracks, apply noise reduction and equalisation, and burn the result to CD. It is popular with music enthusiasts and collectors who want to preserve their physical media libraries as digital files.
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1 suggestionWe could not find confirmation that Golden Records has been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon. The NCH Software versions page we found does not specify architecture details or mention a Universal Binary build. Because Golden Records is still available for download and NCH Software continues to ship updates, we recommend contacting the developer directly to ask about Apple Silicon support. If you need to digitise vinyl or tape now and cannot wait for a native update, Golden Records will continue to run under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs, though it will use more CPU and battery than a native build would. If you require a native alternative, Audacity (a free, open-source audio recorder and editor) runs natively on Apple Silicon and can record from your audio input device, though it lacks the vinyl-to-CD automation and noise reduction tools that Golden Records offers.
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