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Audio Hijack Pro

Audio Hijack Pro - 2.9.6

Add DSP effects to any Mac app with audio content.

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Current Version: 2.9.6
Release Date: 2009-10-08
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 8,488
Downloads (all versions): 44,080
Price: $32.00

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Product Description:

Audio Hijack Pro drastically changes the way you use audio on your computer, giving you the freedom to listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record and enhance any audio with Audio Hijack Pro - it's the cornerstone of your digital audio experience.

Audio Hijack Pro will allow you to record any application's audio, from internet streams to DVD audio and everywhere in between. If your machine can play it, Audio Hijack Pro can record it. And that's not all - Audio Hijack Pro will also enhance any audio, unsing industry-standard VST and AudioUnit audio effects to make your music sound incredible. Record. Enhance. Enjoy!

What's new in this version:

  • The Instant Hijack component has been updated to 2.2.5, which fixes a rare incompatibility with Adobe Version Cue.
  • The Recording Bin now calculates file durations more precisely.
  • The 'Add To iTunes as Bookmarkable' script has been made more robust.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.6

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Audio Hijack Pro ReviewFrom nothing to scheduled in 60 seconds or less - Version: 2.9.5, 12/30/2009 02:20PM PST

taaminator
Audio Hijack Pro is versatile, reliable and stable, and quickly customizable. Rogue Amoeba tech support is the best in the business.

Use:

I mostly use AHP to time-shift internet streams.

Versatile:

AHP allows you to record anything you can hear on your Mac into a broad spectrum of user-customizeable formats.

Install SoundFlower (free) to AHP and you can divert multiple simultaneous inputs to multiple simultaneous outputs.

I use AHP to time shift, but I also use it as an tuner-timer. When scheduled, AHP hijacks a stream and sends it to Airfoil. Airfoil sends the stream to Apple Airport Express-hosted speakers throughout the house, garage, and patio. (AHP is so robust that you can configure AHP differently: AHP can use iTunes to send the stream to Airport Expresses directly.)

Reliable and Stable:

AHP is a "set and forget" application. You can set AHP to record and leave for weeks. The only worry is filling up your hard drive.

AHP never crashes of its own free will. Once or twice a year, Mac OS X may crash AHP, but the AHP Schedule Helper restarts AHP.

From nothing to scheduled in 60 seconds or less:

My friend announced that he will play a special, radio program on one day. I wanted to record it. I selected AHP2, added a new session (I should have copied a previous session.), entered the URL, selected the source (iTunes), added date and time and length, and AHP2 was ready. I tested it. Perfect. I selected the recording format to AAC. I need to add the tags, but, hey, that's trivial.

Tech Support:

Rogue Amoeba's tech support rivals or soundly beats the best in the business.

I had trouble with audio lag in an older Mac (skipping). Even though the problem was not theirs, RA was extremely courteous and helpful and developed a solution that I still use.

Summary:

AHP2 is amazingly robust, and, absolutely, positively indispensible! And, you can go from nothing to scheduled in 60 seconds or less.
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Audio Hijack Pro ReviewGreat, but one glaring flaw... - Version: 2.9.6, 11/19/2009 02:08PM PST

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saghi--2008
I've used Audio Hijack Pro for years and love it.

The new version of Audio Hijack Pro, the 64-bit compatible version, has one huge flaw - it requires that you restart certain apps in 32-bit mode. We don't want to restart in 32-bit mode! Part of what makes some of these updated apps preform so well, like Quicktime 10 for example, is that they're 64-bit!
So as it is, you take a performance hit if you want to hijack audio from Safari or Quicktime X (and many others I'm sure).

The software is still worth it, I think, I just don't hijack Safari or Quicktime X anymore. I'm really hoping they'll get this one figured out.

Also, would love to see the volume controls for each app MUCH larger, having to delicately nudge the mouse to adjust the slider in increments of 4% is a little cumbersome. I'd like to see a Mackie style board, just like their mixers, with nice tall vertical level controls, with ability to adjust in 1% increments instead of 4%.
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Audio Hijack Pro CommentaryKill Tiger Support? Aaarrrggghhh... - Version: 2.9.4, 9/28/2009 08:42AM PST

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freevito
No review here...except to say that I've been an Audio Hijack Pro user for many years. Great application. Evidently the emergence of Snow Leopard provides Rogue Amoeba with the excuse/reason/motivation/impetus to drop support for Tiger, which I am still compelled to use until a certain project is finished. Not that I mind; Tiger works fine.

But it looks like support for AHP in Tiger stopped with v2.9.2. Fooey. Are Leopard and Snow Leopard that much different from Tiger that AHP has had to change so drastically as to make 10.4.x support economically untenable? Apparently so.

Margins must indeed be razor-thin in the software market.
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