Audio Hijack Pro - 2.9.6

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%.

I've been using audio hijack pro for over a year and when i got snow leopard i was worried as instant hijack stopped working but with this new version that was released within about a fortnight of snow leopards release every things hunky dory, it even looks prettier.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks to the devs.
A+

I'm a new Mac user, and I have to tell you I was seriously missing the Mixer feature of Vista. The ability to turn down the audio level of any windows application was -- well -- it was just about the coolest feature in Vista.

I hated having to mute my whole Mac whenever I wanted to play a flash game or something. I like my music, not the annoying flash game musics and sounds.

I fought like hell with JackOSX and it just was too difficult to fiddle with. AHP is perfect for my needs though!

I'd love to see Rogue Amoeba make a volume slider for each application, it would make the functionality perfect.

I don't even use it for what it was intended for. I could care less about recording!

I've used Audio Hijack in it's various versions for several years.

A truly great recording application gets even better. Coupled with Fission, it's the way to get the
best possible recording off of internet streams

One quibble about the use of timers in Audio Hijack. It is STILL POSSIBLE to e.g. schedule a 3 hour
concert via the timer (this would be done in the "Schedule" tab) but if you were doing some
previous recordings and had set a blanket recording time limit of 5 minutes (this would be done in
a different tabbed section "Recording" under "Limits") your scheduled 3 hour recording
starting at 1:30 PM would stop recording at 1:35 PM) the Audio Hijacking would continue for the
full 3 hours but the recording would be 5 minutes long. Kind of a disappointment when you were
planning to save that once-in-a-lifetime Opera broadcast from the Met.

I think it should be possible to at least have both of these possible inputs on the same tabbed page so you would be more likely to notice the conflicting settings. Ideally, it wouldn't be possible to enter more than one of these two options for any given recording session.



Using timers to record streaming audio with VLC. With iTunes- inputting the http address of the
stream into Audio Hijack (in the Input tab in the new 2.9) will cause the radio station to open and
begin recording at the appointed time.

With VLC, inputting the same http address into Audio Hijack will cause VLC to add the address
to the playlist- but it doesn't start playing: it is waiting for you to manually press the "return" key
on your keyboard to get the stream playing. A Google search turned up the solution from one more knowledgeable user:

1. Input the http stream address into VLC and start it playing
2. Go to File > Save Playlist which will generate an M3U file. This file can then be dragged
to Audio Hijack and dropped into the "Open URL/File/AppleScript" box.
3. At the appointed Hijack time, VLC will run the M3U script and actually begin playing the
stream without any further input from you.

The classical radio station WFMT in Chicago outputs its highest quality stream in the AAC+
format that can be played using WinAmp on Windows systems. This stream will not play
using iTunes or Realplayer on Macintosh but it CAN be played using VLC on your Macintosh.

Each time !