MicTape

Record your Mac's microphone to .m4a files from Raycast — into folders you choose, named the way you want, with a timer in the menu bar.

Built for long sessions such as lectures and meetings: audio is flushed to disk every second, so a crash or a dead battery never costs more than the last second.

Requirements

This extension drives the mictape command-line tool (v0.2.0 or later), which does the recording. Install it first with Homebrew:

brew install t4kamuna/tap/mictape

Or build it from source:

git clone https://github.com/t4kamuna/mictape.git
cd mictape
swift build -c release
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
install -m 755 .build/release/mictape ~/.local/bin/mictape

The extension looks for mictape in ~/.local/bin, /opt/homebrew/bin, and /usr/local/bin. If you installed it elsewhere, set MicTape CLI Path in the extension preferences.

The first recording started from Raycast asks for microphone access for Raycast.

Commands

• Start Recording — pick a destination and start recording in the background. If your file name template uses {label}, you are asked for a label (the next number is suggested).
• Stop Recording — stop and save.
• Recording Status — shows the elapsed time in the menu bar while recording.
• Test Microphone — records five seconds and reports the input level.
• Recording Settings — add or remove destinations and edit the file name template, with a live example.

Destinations and file names

Set them in Recording Settings: pick a folder, or enter a glob so that every matching folder becomes a destination. The file name template supports {label} and {date:FORMAT}.

Settings are stored in ~/.config/mictape/config.json and shared with the mictape command line. See the mictape README.

{
  "destinations": [{ "path": "~/Documents/Classes/[0-9]*-?*", "subdirectory": "audio" }],
  "filename": "{label}-{date:yyyyMMdd}.m4a"
}

Privacy

Neither the extension nor mictape makes any network connection. Recordings are written only to your destinations.